ED5821:04
Instructional Design and Evaluation
Townsville
Flexible delivery by text based modules, Email and WWW nationally and internationally. Access to Web-based material would be advantageous for this subject for those students wishing to study off-campus, however this is not a requirement. Second semester.
Available to Postgraduate Certificate, BEd (Professional Development) and Master of Education students.
Staff: Dr L Henderson.
The subject identifies traditional approaches to instructional design and evaluation and critically contrasts them with alternative processes in the context of different learning environments and individual requirements. The concepts of, and techniques for, needs analysis, team approaches to design, implementation and evaluation in various work place environments (e.g. school, higher education, armed forces, public service and industry) are a particular focus. In essence, the subject is designed to develop instructional design and evaluation skills and techniques useful and relevant to the student as the designer and facilitator of learning experiences.
Learning Objectives:
- critical evaluation of models of instructional design and evaluation;
- construction of informed perspectives on the various issues involved in the field of instructional design and evaluation;
- instructional design of a project of the student’s choice and evaluation of that instructional design;
- reflection on the student’s engagement with content applicable to this subject and the student’s learning journey with that project.
Assessment by project (70%) (Part A – Portfolio (50%), Part B – Essay (20%); E-mail or WWW discussions or reflective journal (30%).