ETEC 613- Instructional Design and Development
The purpose of this course is to prepare students to follow a systematic approach for designing instruction based on concepts and techniques introduced in the course. Based on the concepts learned, students were required to work in groups of three to develop an instructional module for an intellectual skill using the Dick & Carey model and conduct a formative evaluation.
The instructional design team consisted of an ObGyn doctor and two educators who are all first-year students in the ETEC masters program. As a team, we thought it would be interesting to create an instructional module geared toward expectant parents that have a desire to create a birthing plan based on the risks and benefits of behavioral and medical options. It was nice to have a Doctor on the team to serve as the subject matter expert. Overall, it was a very successful and rewarding process that gave each of us a real-life situation that good instructional design can serve a great purpose for.
The following instructional design assignments were completed in ETEC 613:
The instructional design team consisted of an ObGyn doctor and two educators who are all first-year students in the ETEC masters program. As a team, we thought it would be interesting to create an instructional module geared toward expectant parents that have a desire to create a birthing plan based on the risks and benefits of behavioral and medical options. It was nice to have a Doctor on the team to serve as the subject matter expert. Overall, it was a very successful and rewarding process that gave each of us a real-life situation that good instructional design can serve a great purpose for.
The following instructional design assignments were completed in ETEC 613:
- An Instructional Hierarchy- This was the blue-print to our module that consisted of entry-level skills and concepts that led up to meeting the terminal objective to our instructional module.
- Content Analysis- A content analysis was needed to effectively develop the instructional module.
- Instructional Module- A well-designed instructional module was developed and implemented with a target audience
- Based on the results from pretest, embedded, and posttest results, a formative evaluation was presented and used to revise future use of the module.
- Deliver a professional presentation
Instructional Design
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Click HERE to view Content Analysis Paper
Click HERE to view Instructional Module
Click HERE to view Formative Evaluation
Click HERE to view Final Presentation
Instructional Design Feedback
This project was a great success. Having a subject matter expert and two educators who were well-rounded with delivering instruction as well as designing instruction made for an effective group. With many hours of working on a concise instructional hierarchy, this allowed for great instructional design to take place. Our instructor was very satisfied with our final hierarchy, which took many revisions on our part to present the "ideal" hierarchy for our instruction. The feedback received about our content analysis involved our test items. Some of the test items needed to be rewritten since they were too similar to our pre and embedded test items. We also realized that our terminal objective test item needed more instruction to produce better results. It was a challenge finding additional information to present in the terminal objective because we felt we had already taught the concepts throughout the module, however, it was recommended to give examples or a scenario of what is expected of the learners. With the hard work put forth in our hierarchy and content analysis, the development of the "Labor of Love" module was "very well done" and yielded great results.
AECT Standards
The instructional design module connects to AECT standards 1 and 5: Design and Evaluation. The design component of our module used a variety of techniques, such as Dick & Carey's information processing approach and the use of Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction. These design theories allowed us to present an instructional module for a target audience. After the design and implementation of our instructional module we evaluated the instruction based on pretests, embedded test, posttest, and learner, instructor and peer feedback. Evaluation played an important role in the improvement of our design and future instructional strategies and implementation.