Assignment+Instruction

Due Dates February 9: Read Brown and Green, chapter 1-4 February 17: February 23: March 8: March 10 project comments
 * Assignment 1 Front-end Analysis
 * Read Brown, chapters 5-8
 * Assignment 2: Goals, objectives, and storyboard
 * Read Brown, chapters 9-12
 * Assignment 3: Develop and implement the final project
 * Final presentation
 * Five resources


 * Instruction**

Use your wiki or Dreamweaver to complete assignment 1
 * Assignment 1: Front End Analysis**

1. Statement of the Problem Provide a brief introduction to the issues. How is the problem identified? Where is it happening? Who is the target audience? What is the current condition? What is the ideal state (criterion) that you want the learners or target audience to accomplish? Here are a few possible topics.


 * Student learning problem in the classroom (one grade below level)
 * Voting machine problems during election (unclear instruction or interface design)
 * Online safety and plagiarism

2. Needs Assessment (refer to Brown & Green, chapter 5) Develop a plan to examine the possible causes of the instructional problem and the target audience. Answer the following questions:
 * What is the change being requested
 * Who is requesting this change?
 * Where will this change need to take place?
 * What approach will be used to conduct needs assessment?

3. Task Analysis (refer to Brown & Green, chapter 6) Determine the type of content and skills that need to be included in the instruction.


 * Iidentify the instructional goal which is the criterion in the problem statement.
 * Write all the tasks that are needed for the learners to be able to complete the goals. Use either the outline or flowchart format.

4. Learner Analysis (refer to Brown & Green, chapter 7) You can conduct an actual survey of the learners, design a learner ability chart to examine the learners, or creating a fictitious profile of the typical learner

Front-end Analysis due on Feb. 17

Design** Use the Design Matrix to complete instructional goal, objectives, strategies, and assessment. There should be at least four objectives.
 * Assignment 2:

Read Brown & Green, chapter 8; Smith & Ragan, chapter 5, design documents)

Based on the instructional goal and objectives, develop the instructional activities of the training module and present the instruction in a storyboard with 10-20 screen shots. Use a combination of graphic organizer and web editor.
 * Storyboard**

Read Brown & Green, chapter 9-12

Design of Instruction and Story Board due on Feb. 23

Use Dreamweaver, Captivate, or Flashform to design the instructional activities that are designed to address the instructional goal and objectives. The training module should include at least one video, one audio, some graphics, instructional text, and assessment. Instructional activities could include case study, simulation, technical training or soft skill training. The project should have beteeen 10-20 screens. The final project should be accessible from a Web server. Provide the Web address to the class wiki. Final project rubric
 * Assignment 3: Development and Implementation of Learning Environment and Instructional Activities (Final project)**