ComputerAided Instruction

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Computer-Aided Instruction

• Department of Computer Science
• Xavier University

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Content and Media Design
Week 10
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Week 10 Outline

• Content Design
• Configuration Control
• Media Specification
• User Interface
• Evaluation and Revision of Design

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Content Design

• Elimination of Ideas
• Task and Concept Analysis
• Preliminary Lesson Description
• Evaluation and Revision of the Design

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Content Design

• Elimination of Ideas
• Bases
• Characteristics of the students
• Relationship of ideas to the subject matter
• Amount of time
• Restrictions of your instructional delivery
  system

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Content Design

• Elimination of Ideas

Ideas Eliminated Recognizing a telephone Answering
a telephone How to use party lines History of
Telephones
Reasons for Elimination Too easy, probably
known Too easy Rarely needed Not of interest to
students
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Content Design

• Task and Concept Analysis
• determine a suitable teaching sequence
• produce the necessary details of the lesson
• purpose Sequence, Structure, Content
• Task Analysis determine an efficient sequence
  for teaching the content
• Concept Analysis analysis of the content

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Content Design

• Task and Concept Analysis

Make a Loaf of Bread
Prepare the Dough
Bake the Dough
Prepare the Pan
Prepare the Oven
Bake the Dough
Task Analysis of Bread Baking
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Content Design

• Task and Concept Analysis

Philippine History
Pre-Spanish Period
Spanish Period
Magellans Discovery
Colonization
Rev.
Concept Analysis of Philippine History
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Content Design

• Preliminary Lesson Description
• identifying types of learning (verbal learning,
  motor skills, problem solving, rule learning,
  concept learning, attitudes, and cognitive
  strategies)
• choosing a methodology
• identifying procedures and required skills

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Content Design

• Preliminary Lesson Description
• factor decisions (e.g. feedback, question types,
  directions, student control, motivation, judging,
  etc.)
• sequence description (focus pre-requisites,
  assumptions)

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Content Design
Ideas Dialing local calls Telephone
Courtesy Dialing for Information
Types of Learning Simple skill Attitude
learning Concept and Procedure Learning
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Content Design
Factor Response Types Response Mode Provision
for Help
Decision Pointing at numbers to dial Pointing
with mouse Yes, by pointing at a HELP button
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Design Guidelines

• Activity Design
• design activities to be interesting and
  challenging
• design activities for expanding complexity and
  support them as they navigate each level
• design supportive reward structures

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Design Guidelines

• Instructional Design
• present instructions in an age-appropriate format
• design instructions to be easy to comprehend and
  remember
• allow users to control access to instructional
  information

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Development Problems

• Learning an authoring language
• Getting content trapped in an inappropriate
  system
• Moving content over time to new platforms
• Adapting content to new paradigms
• Adapting to new looks

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Some Solutions

• Use open and sustainable environments
• Use industry standard tools where appropriate
• Use more than one technology and combine
• Budget for ongoing maintenance
• Separate form and content wherever possible