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WCET 2012San Antonio, TexasNovember 2, 2012
Effective Course Design PanelRuth Markulis, Instructional
Technologist
Effective Course Design Agenda
Welcome! I am happy to be here with you today to share experiences and have an interactive discussion.
Your Course Design Challenges
Cybersecurity Case Study
Developing a Mobile Strategy
MS Cybersecurity Program
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Managing Complexity
• Curriculum Interactive Modules Case Studies and Virtual Labs Capstone Simulation
• University-wide effort of collaborative teams
• Integrate efforts from many disciplines and skill sets
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Strategies That Worked Well
• Weekly Excel Project Plan Tracking Sheets Staffing, Tasks, and Due Dates Completed Items Pending Items Yellow and Red Alerts
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Strategies That Worked Well
• Weekly Project Status Reports and Meetings Delayed Tasks and Milestones and Impacts Accomplishments Pending Items Concerns and Recommended Actions Remarks
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Strategies That Worked Well
• Making all assumptions explicit• Explaining dependencies• Flexibility
Adding or realigning resources and contingency plans
• Sharepoint as document repository Version Control/Archive
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Strategies That Worked Well
• Details! Include a deadline in the subject line of
emails for time-sensitive materialsUrgent-Please respond by date
Include vacation schedules, holidays Scheduled check in conference calls
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Instructional Design Model
The Process
The Process
Subject Matter Expert Support
Strategies That Worked Well
• Subject Matter Expert Training Workshop Policies and Procedures/Roles Expectations Research and Writing Unique, Accurate Master’s Level Content Case Study and Simulation Ideas for Critical
Thinking Best Practices and Current Thinking in the Field Quality Assurance
Review Teams
Strategies That Worked Well
• “Bug Sheets” Content, Graphics, Technical
• Active Discussion in Wimba/WebEx• Lead SME has final word• Requested changes/clarifications• Continuous quality improvement
Review Teams
Strategies That Worked Well
• Initially a long process• Became streamlined• Led to proactive change in
design/process Moved editorial review and intellectual
property review earlier in process
Tools for Interactivity
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Tools for Interactivity
Tools for Interactivity
Tools for Interactivity
Faculty Support
Strategies That Worked Well
• Model classroom• Orientation each semester• Faculty classroom for
discussion/questions• Ongoing meetings as needed• Teaching/lab assistants
Going Mobile-Best Practices
Has your campus experimented with mobile devices to deliver content?
Please share your experiences.
Going Mobile-Best Practices
• Feature Phones- 12 keys, digital camera, media player
• Smart Phones-Third party applications for productivity
• PDAs-QWERTY keyboard and stylus for organizational tasks
• iPads-More features for light work, presentations, interactive learning
Going Mobile-Best Practices
How many mobile devices are there worldwide?
What impact is this having on educational institutions?
Going Mobile-Best Practices
Gartner Group 2011
•5.6 billion mobile phones worldwide •80% of world’s population•$315 billion in revenue
Going Mobile-Best Practices
The State of the Mobile Web in Higher Ed
February 2012 (267 institutions)
59% provide a mobile solution (37% in 2011)
39% plan to develop a mobile solution 2% no plan
Going Mobile-Best Practices
Going Mobile-Best Practices
The State of the Mobile Web in Higher Ed
February 2012 (267 institutions)
56% plan a dedicated mobile Web site 26% plan to develop device-specific
apps
Going Mobile-Best Practices
The State of the Mobile Web in Higher Ed
February 2012 (267 institutions)
73 % developed by faculty staff 20% developed by vendor 65% no special budget for mobile
Going Mobile-Best PracticesDevelop a Mobile Strategy
•Why are you going mobile?•Determining appropriate content•Interactivity-solving a real problem
Checking sports scores Checking weather, directions, maps Flight reservations News updates
Going Mobile-Best Practices
Develop a Mobile Strategy•Balance business goals vs. constraints•How does mobile presence help organization achieve its goals?•Audience goals-What does user want to accomplish? What is the value-added proposition?
Going Mobile-Best Practices
Develop a Mobile Strategy
What do you think would be appropriate educational content
for mobile devices based on these commercial applications?
Going Mobile-Best Practices
Good Mobile Design•Designing for mobile devices is different than designing for the Web•Don’t take an existing Web page and make it smaller•Limit content and plan content categories and navigation carefully
Going Mobile-Best Practices
Primary Navigation
Menu
Content
Footer
Header
Navigation
Content
Navigation
Footer
Going Mobile-Best Practices
Design Challenges or Constraints•Variety of devices and browsers•Older devices•Screen size and keypad design•Embedded objects and scripts not supported•Frames not supported•Flash not supported
Going Mobile-Best PracticesDesign Challenges or
Constraints•Pop-up windows not supported•Linking to external resources adds time and cost to page views
Going Mobile-Best Practices
Good Mobile Design•Must be device specific
Target devices
•Must render properly 128 X 160 pixels
•Must load quickly•Must not crash the browser
Going Mobile-Best Practices
Good Mobile Design•File sizes are small, under 10 Kb•Customization
Site should remember user information and preferences and load them when user returns to site
Going Mobile-Best Practices
Good Mobile Design•Handset detection-serving correct version of mobile content
http://deviceatlas.com
•Dynamic content formatting•URL redirects•Register domain names
Going Mobile-Best PracticesDeveloping Standards
•W3C Initiatives Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group Device Description Working Group
Consistent, complete User-Agent Profiles (UA-Profs)
•Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)
Going Mobile-Best Practices
W3C Mobile Web Working Group
•XHTML Basic and XHTML MP 1.0 Character Encoding-UTF 8 XHTML MP 1.0 Doctype-tells browsers
how to render content List of MIME types on server-add
XHTML
Going Mobile-Best Practices
W3C Mobile Web Working Group
•XHTML Basic and XHTML MP 1.0 Search engines use page titles Wireless CSS stylesheets lower page
size•Use Wireless Markup Language (WML) for older mobile browsers•HTML 5 and Java
Going Mobile-Best Practices
Design Considerations
•Use <div> or <dl> tags, not <table>•Use server side includes (SSI), not frames•Place navigation in content page•Use accesskeys (numbers on keypad) to link to content and limit links to 10 or fewer per page•Prioritize links by popularity•Use brief forms if at all
Use radio buttons and drop-down menus rather than text boxes
Going Mobile-Best Practices
Design Considerations for Images
•Image width should by under 120 pixels•Avoid images containing dense information•Specify pixel height and width so these do not have to be calculated by the device which increases rendering time•Omit image maps as there usually is no pointing device•Always use alt tags
Going Mobile-Best Practices
Testing•Prototyping and Usability Testing•Desktop testing•Emulator testing•Device testing-Prepaid SIM cards
http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/ http://www.uaprof.com/ http://www.developershome.com/wap/
detection/detection.asp?page=uaprof
Going Mobile-Best PracticesReferences and Resources
W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Basic Guidelines
•http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/
Global Authoring Practices
•http://www.passani.it/gap/
mobiReady Tool evaluates your Web page
•http://ready.mobi/launch.jsp?locale=en_EN
Going Mobile-Best Practices
References and ResourcesDot-mobi domain approved by Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 2006
•http://news.cnet.com/2100-1039_3-6075779.html
Mobile Web Best Practices, Case Studies, and Statistics
•http://www.mobithinking.com/Open Mobile Alliancehttp://www.openmobilealliance.org/
Going Mobile-Best PracticesReferences and Resources
Horizon Report 2012•http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2012-horizon-report-HE.pdf
Accessibility•http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/
Thank Youruth.markulis@umuc.edu
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