Maharaja Sayaji University, BarodaFebruary 12th, 2011

Sameer Sahasrabudhe and Kapil Kadam

In today’s workshop you will:

• Work in groups, get to know colleagues from other colleges

• Learn theory and practice of instructional design (ID)

• Apply ID principles to develop e-learning content for your class

• Identify chemical engineering concepts that would benefit from animation

• Develop Instructional Design Documents (IDDs) for animating

these concepts

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• National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technologies

• Govt of India – MHRD initiated effort

• Enhance the current enrollment rate in Higher Education from 10% to 15 % by the end of the 11th Plan period

• Project OSCAR is part of this larger project

NMEICT

http://oscar.iitb.ac.in

Form groups

• Write your preferred topics in your domain on the sheet of paper

• Call out for partners!

• Form 6 groups, similar topics

• Name your group

3 min only -- COUNTDOWN STARTS NOW

Think-Group-Share

What do you expect to learn from this Instructional Design Workshop?

• THINK – 2 minutes, write your personal objective

• GROUP – Discuss answers in group, come up with group’s objective

• SHARE – with entire class

What makes an animation good?

When is an animation ineffective ?

You decide …

Long pages filled only with text.User/student treated as passive reader.

Under-designed.

You decide …

Too many focal points, frills.Content distracts from learning.

Over-designed.

What makes an animation effective?

e-learning content is effective when it is based on:

• Sound subject matter content

• Learner-centered pedagogy

• Systematic Instructional Design

• Good visual design principles

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Instructional Designing

Definition:

Instructional design is the science of creating detailed specifications for the development, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance of situations that facilitate the learning of both large and small units of subject matter at all levels of complexity.http://www.umich.edu/~ed626/define.html

Steps:

•Analysis

•Design

•Development

•Implementation

•Evaluation

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• Let’s look at an example. What are some of the problems you face while teaching your subject?

• Will visualization (animation/simulation) help bridge this gap?

• If yes, should you do an animation or simulation?

Need Analysis

People say animation is used for..

• Cosmetic•To break the textual monotony!

• Attention gaining•To break the ‘static’ monotony!

• Motivation•To use the motion and interaction to motivate users

• Presentation•To present the concept in a impressive way

• Clarification•To use animation to explain/clarify the concept

What purposes are important for you?

Animation is good when...• Computational power of performing calculations, and rendering the visuals for the same

• Movement of the components in the topic

• Trajectory of the of the movement

• Making the invisible visible (atoms, fields...)

How to choose if a conceptshould be animated?

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Theory of selecting animation as a medium

Will Trajectory and Movement inherent in the chosen topic

enhance instruction?

YES NO

Animation may not be necessary.What is the purpose?

If Yes..Which functiondoes it serve?

If No..

What function is the animation serving?

Animation may be useful. But

depends on the domain

Cosmetic, Attention,

Motivating...

PresentationClarification

None

Use sparingly Animation is not recommended

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Theory of selecting animation as a medium

Is animation inherently tiedto your subject?

If Yes..What subject structure is

Best classification of your topic?

NO

ConceptsProcedures FactsPrinciples/Rules

Skills

Animationmight not be

useful.

• System impacted by simultaneous influences• Change over time• Not visible to naked eyes

Equipment or contextnot readily available

YesAnimation might be

useful in explaining the steps of the procedure

Figure 1 is sufficient

NoAnimation is usefulin communicating

Same concept, different animations

• http://www.industry-animated.org/heat_ex.htm

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JipA1cnmVZg

• http://www.bin95.com/swf/heat-exchangers-basics.swf

• http://www.bendelcorp.com/heatexchangers_designspecs.html

Group activity !Select concept using graph

• Discuss possible concepts in your group

• Debate pros & cons

• Choose one concept

• Tell all of us your chosen concept

Different animations for different goals!

• Who will use it?

• Where will animation be used?

• What do we want the users to learn?

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Content Analysis

Sequencing

Discovery Learning

How to sequence and chunk content

Learning objectives

What do you want students to take away from theday’s class?

– What skills, knowledge and attitudes do you want students to develop?

– How will you structure the content of your material?– What resources and strategies will you use in your

instruction?– How will you assess the students’ learning?

How to ensure users see what we want them to see?

Visibility

Accessibility

Functionality

Usability

Features of good animationsTeaching/learning perspective

• clear learning objectives

• interactive learning

• constructivist approach

• multiple representations

Group activity!

• Decide the target audience (Learner analysis)

• Where will the animation be used (Context analysis)

• How will you chunk and sequence the content?

• Write the learning objectives

WRITE all your ideas

This is part 1 of the Instructional Design Document!

Send your IDDs tooscar@it.iitb.ac.in

Sameer Sahasrabudhe Kapil Kadam

s1000brains@iitb.ac.ins1000brains@it.iitb.ac.in

kkapilkk@gmail.com kapilkadam@iitb.ac.in

www.oscar.iitb.ac.inOpen Source Courseware

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