Maharaja Sayaji University, Baroda February 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

3 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

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

14 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. Steps: Analysis Design Development Implementation Evaluation

15 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 concept should be animated?

19 Theory of selecting animation as a medium Will Trajectory and Movement inherent in the chosen topic enhance instruction? YESNO Animation may not be necessary. What is the purpose? If Yes.. Which function does it serve? If No.. What function is the animation serving? Animation may be useful. But depends on the domain Cosmetic, Attention, Motivating... Presentation Clarification None Use sparingly Animation is not recommended

20 Theory of selecting animation as a medium Is animation inherently tied to your subject? If Yes.. What subject structure is Best classification of your topic? NO Concepts Procedures Facts Principles/Rules Skills Animation might not be useful. System impacted by simultaneous influences Change over time Not visible to naked eyes Equipment or context not readily available Yes Animation might be useful in explaining the steps of the procedure Figure 1 is sufficient No Animation is useful in communicating

Same concept, different animations

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?

25 Content Analysis Sequencing Discovery Learning How to sequence and chunk content

Learning objectives What do you want students to take away from the day’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 animations Teaching/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!

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