Instructional Design Process Connect Your Website: Application Program Interfaces 12.03.2006 Jullien Gordon Aneto Okonkwo Gilbert Zaragoza

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Instructional Design ProcessConnect Your
Website Application Program Interfaces
12.03.2006 Jullien GordonAneto
OkonkwoGilbert Zaragoza

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The objective of this document is to give a
high level summary of1. the needs
assessment2. learner assessment3. instructional
objectives4 .assessment performance5.
strategies and activities development6.
materials selection7. implementation 8.
evaluation of the project
1. INTRODUCTION

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Whats an API? Application Programming
Interfaces (API) involves technology that
connects websites to other services or data and
almost every type of website can be connected to
another service or set of data with an API. Why
is it important?APIs are important because this
technology has immense capability to increase the
value of millions of websites. Why teach
about it?Despite the popularity and widespread
use of APIs, there are very few introductory
classes to the topic because of the relative
youth of the technology.
2. NEEDS ASSESSMENT

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The relevant learner characteristics
included1. Heavy internet user2. Ability to
read text, listen to audio and navigate 3.
Limited time4. Limited programming experience5.
Individual learner6. Motivation to learn a new
technology that can help increase the value of a
website .
3. LEARNER ASSESSMENT

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Audience Website creators, owners and
publishers Behavior Upon completion of the
presentation, a participant will demonstrate the
following skills1. Define Application
Programming Interfaces (API)2. Visually diagram
an API 3. List the tradeoffs of using APIs4.
Outline a use case for their website and a sample
APICondition Given a background in HTML
programming and/or experience with scripting
languages, a participant of the presentation will
be able to perform the above behaviorDegree
After completing this presentation the
participant will be able to complete integration
with Google Checkout in less than a week.
4. INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES

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5. ASSESSMENT OF PERFORMANCE
Assessment will take place after every section of
the learning presentation in the form of short
quizzes on the content of the section. There are
six sections. The sixth section contains a
summary of all the quiz questions in the
presentation. This summation will ensure
redundancy and repetition. The quizzes are short
in order to prevent interruption of the flow of
the presentation while still providing a
compelling summary. The material for each
successive section builds on the previous
section. After each question, students will be
notified which questions they answered correctly
and incorrectly. Below is an example of a sample
pre-test quiz that accompanies the presentation.
1. What is an Application Programming
Interface? a. new programming language b. interfac
e design of a website c. connects websites to
other services or data

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6. STRATEGIES ACTIVITIES DEVELOPMENT
REDUNDANACY Our presentation has
elements of redundancy which aids learner
development. For example, after every section
there is a quiz which asks questions based on the
section. There are also summaries after each
section that detail what was discussed. After
the quiz, the answers are provided and after the
entire presentation, there is a summary quiz of
all the questions.
DIAGRAMMING There is also a quiz which involves
diagramming the interaction of an API with a
website which borrows cognitive strategies of
constructing a diagram.

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7. MATERIALS SELECTED
The instructional materials included a
combination of
Abc
text audio
video powerpoint

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The implementation involved1. Assigning
roles within the team of project manager,
designer, and tester. 2. Assigning tasks and
deadlines to complete those tasks within the
group. 3. Scheduling several team meetings
where previous work was reviewed and new action
items were assigned. 4. Completing a prototype
of the presentation which was reviewed by the
class professor
8.1 IMPLEMENTATION

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The implementation included many elements of
instructional design includingCognitive
Strategies There is a section of the
presentation that involves diagramming
architecture of the use of the API with the
participants website.Multimedia Principle
The presentation uses text, images, audio and
video in different parts of the presentation to
increase the level of engagement with the
learnerModality Principle The presentation
presents very little text on the slides and uses
the audio speaking in a colloquial voice to
manage sensory intake by the participant.
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Redundancy Principle The presentation
summarizes the key points of every section with a
quiz and also an auditory summary. There is also
a final quiz which is a summation of all the
quizzes.Coherence Principle The presentation
is broken up into six sections which logically
build on top of each other. There is an outline
before each section to remind the participant of
their current position in the presentation.Inter
active Principle There are buttons on the
presentation to allow the participant to move
forward, backward, next section, last section or
replay the current slide.Motivation The
motivation for viewing the presentation is
presented early in the presentation and is also
summarized at the end of the presentation. This
value proposition is restated after every section
to maintain the engagement of the participant.
8.3 IMPLEMENTATION

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Overall, the learning objectives were
satisfactorily achieved. However, testers
commented that they would have preferred the
ability to dive into particularly interesting
topics and also requested directions to more
resources.
9.1 EVALUATION
During development
Post development
Professorfeedback Testing byinformalparticipan
ts Internal enduser feedback
Several endusers Quizzes withinpresentation Po
st-presentationsurvey
FINAL PRESENTATION FEEDBACK SOURCES