Module 5
Engaging Interface, Content, and Presentation Contexts
1. Overview & Objectives
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24 pages)
Estimated time to complete Module 5:
~8 hours
Video Overview of Module 5
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[ Transcript - Duration: 1'38"]
Topics
- Finding, creating, and incorporating rich, multimodal content to your courses
- Engaging and motivating students: creating frequent, rich, and challenging high-stakes learning activities
- Designing an effective and engaging course-site interface
- Exploring interface-design and multimedia-creation technology tools
Objectives
- Review the DOTS course and other sample courses for navigation-scheme ideas and identify/analyze schemes that you consider successful
- Review the DOTS course and other sample courses for multimedia and interface-design elements that successfully enhance course delivery and identify relevant elements that could inform your own course design
- Examine how the identified navigation-scheme, multimedia, and interface-design elements relate to the Quality Matters standards for course resources and technology
- Incorporate selected navigation-scheme, multimedia, and interface-design elements to your sample-course materials and assignments
- Participate in asynchronous online interactions, in low- and high-stake contexts
- Become familiar with course-interface-design (e.g. SoftChalk) and screencasting (e.g. Camtasia & ScreenFlow) tools
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