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Consultation
As you begin to enhance your course with online materials the first step is evaluation.
Practical Questions
Instructional Design Questions
- What problems are you trying to solve? What do you want it increase or decrease by implementing an educational technology?
- What do you want the students to do with the technology? How will they interact with it?
- What are your objectives? What do you want the students to be able to do after the instruction?
Environmental Questions
- What kind of equipment is availalbe? A lab? A home computer? A mobile computer?
- How fast is the typical connection? High speed? Wireless? Dial up?
- What kind of players are available? In a hospital enviroment, students may not be able to download and install players. Make sure they have the players needed for your materials. Windows media and PDF are commonly supported.
- What technology tools are commonly used?
INSTRUCTIONALservices can help you to assess and evalute your instructional goals and develop recommendations for implementing new educational technologies.
Some of the technologies we specialize in are:
- Carmen, the University’s learning management system
- Microsoft Office & TurningPoint
- Web page authoring tools, (i.e., Dreamweaver, 2md's Site Tool)
- Multimedia authoring applications (i.e., Flash)
- Image editing applications (i.e., Adobe Photoshop, ImageReady)
- Recording and distributing (podcasting) educational materials.
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