Recommended Prerequisite: Web Page Design and Construction Workshop
Phase 1. The instructional design process and Web design. Reviewing and choosing Web-based instruction graphics, media, and communications tools, as well as support and management options.): Lecture, Readings, and Discussion
Phase 2. Creating an Instructional Design Plan for Web-based Training: Learning Activities:
Phase 3. Implement the instructional design plan using Moodle
(or LMS or simple Web site of your choice with teacher guidance and approval) to create a short course/tutorial/workshop
Optional
Web Page Design and Construction Workshop
In this hands-on course the intellectual focus will be on using good instructional design and Web page design principles. Participants will also be introduced to Web-based Teaching techniques and materials using standard Web pages and free or low-cost communications tools.
We will overview of the state-of-the-art of web-based instructional technology and its applications. We will review the use of teaching materials created with multi-media plug-ins and classroom communications tools.
This workshop requires a significant amount of hands-on learning-activities , project work, and readings. This work will result in a completed instructional design plan for an instructional unit of the participants choice for a learner group of their choice with teacher guidance and approval. Participants may also implement their instructional design plan as a short course/tutorial/workshop on the teachers Moodle LMS or on an LMS or simple Web site of their choice.
This is a three phase course.
- Phase one is lecture, discussion, and readings on the instructional design process in the context of Web-based training with emphasis on the Moodle LMS.
- Phase two is hands-on activities that will step participants through creating or assessing an instructional design plan (with teacher guidance and approval) for a short unit of instruction on a topic and for learners of their choice (short course/tutorial/workshop).
- Phase three involves implementing the instructional design plan developed in Phase 2 on the teachers Moodle LMS or on an LMS or simple Web site of the participants choice.
The course itself will be online at http://moodle.kovacs.com. Participants will receive and/or be able to download printable versions of the learning activities etc. to use during the course session as well. The syllabus is also online at http:// kovacs.com/diwbt.html.
The teacher has been teaching this course in various versions for over a decade. The original version was a three weeks long hands-on course "Designing and Implementing Web-based Training in Libraries" developed for the Cleveland Area Metropolitan Libraries in 1998.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be able to use clear instructional design process to design distance education/Web-based instructional units.
- Participants will be able to evaluate distance education/Web-based tutorials, workshops, or courses in terms of their design and relevanc.
- Participants will be able to identify, evaluate, and choose appropriate distance education/Web-based teaching technologies within the context of a good instructional design plan (e.g., media, graphics, communications, and management tools).
- Participants will end the session with a completed instructional design plan for a single unit of Web-based instruction of their choice (with teacher guidance and approval).
- Participants may choose to implement their completed instructional design plan on the teachers Moodle LMS or other LMS or simple Web site of their choice.
Librarians and other information specialists who work with healthcare consumers and/or healthcare professionals who are interested in learning the instructional design process, reviewing distance education/Web-based teaching tools and options, and creating a simple Web-based short course/tutorial/workshop.
Some experience with Web-based instruction is assumed. (e.g., have taken a course online, completed a Web-based tutorial as a learner). No Web-based instruction experience is expected, but Web-based teachers will find the course a good review and reinforcement experience.
Participants should know how to use e-mail and a current standard Web Browser, e.g., Mozilla/Firebird or IE 5.5 or higher is preferred. Some HTML or HTML editor experience will be needed. Some basic HTML review will be accessible. Level of instruction is advanced.
Diane K. Kovacs is President of Kovacs Consulting - Internet & Web Training. She has more than 15 years of experience as a Web Teacher and Consultant. Diane has been designing and teaching Web-based MLA CE courses since 2001. She also designs and teaches Web-based courses for UIUC GSLIS LEEP, the ACRL, and other organizations.
Genealogical Research on Web was published in 2002 . How to Find Medical Information on the Internet: A Print and Online Tutorial for the Health Care Professional and Consumer (2000) (Library Solutions Press) and Building Electronic Library Collections: The Essential Guide to Selection Criteria and Core Collections (Neal-Schuman) were both published in 2000.
Diane's first book The Internet Trainer's Guide , was published in 1995. The Internet Trainer's Total Solution Guide was published in 1997. She has also co-authored with her husband Michael Kovacs, Cybrarians Guide to Successful Internet Programs and Services which was published by Neal-Schuman in 1997.
Diane Kovacs is the 2000 recipient of the "Documents to the People" award from the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association. She was also the recipient of the Apple Corporation Library's, Internet Citizen Award for 1992 and was the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science Alumni Association's first recipient of the Leadership Award in 1996. Since 1990 she has been the editor-in-chief of the Directory of Scholarly and Professional Electronic Conferences.
Diane received an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois in 1989 and an M.Ed. in Instructional Technology from Kent State University in 1993. She has a B.A. in Anthropology also from the University of Illinois, 1985.
