E-Courseware Design: Issues
Let me list some of the topical issues that keep emerging and need to be addressed asap.
- usability – what I mean here is all the extra clicks that either my students or I make, which takes time. Distributing courseware in space often results in learners’ having to spend more time online than they would otherwise have, and that should be avoided.
- feedback – it is not enough to provide feedback, it also has to be easy to locate your comments and respond to them, i.e. there is a need for greater interactivity in this respect
- note-taking – I’ve recently described an ideal e-notebook, now I have to put my ideas into practice
- archiving – this is an issue with longer courses, because your online learning space tends to get really crowded and something needs to be done with older materials: it is unwise to delete them, but it is very inconvenient to keep them up front, because they slow you down when you want to read the latest course news. Scrolling down to the most recently added worksheets and other materials also starts taking more time than you can possibly afford.
Posted on January 5, 2009 at 9:24 am by Stacey · Permalink
In: Course Design, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Observations, Teacher Skills · Tagged with: archiving, categorizing, feedback, interactivity, issues, materials, sorting, time, usability, worksheets
In: Course Design, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Observations, Teacher Skills · Tagged with: archiving, categorizing, feedback, interactivity, issues, materials, sorting, time, usability, worksheets
