Overview of Assessment

I have restarted this module very late. I will use this posting to confirm what assessment is to take place and an overview of my plans.


I am really excited about this module because my job role is that of a Learning Designer. Learning Design is obviously very close to Web Design in many ways and the underlying theory and practice are things that i come across every day.


The challenge for me in this module will be separating the what I think I know from the what I should know. A lot of the principles and concepts are as I have said very similar. Unfortunately I have not had formal training in instructional design so my experiences have been very hands on designing what works practically and what doesn't.


The whole theory of web design is something that surrounds me on a daily basis but after reading a lot of the course materials I can identify that it is a mixed bag of whether it actually is effective of not.


So what do I have to do to validate the learning?


The table below extracted from the course materials describes the outputs:

Journal

For the journal I intend to maintain this blog and then extract the most effective elements to produce the final document. My strategy will be to write as much as I need to then edit down to the required 500 words.

An Individual  presentation of e-communications design

This in principle should be straightforward as part of my role is to design storyboards for elearning. However recently I have been called upon to design an online Individual Learning Plan to replace the paper one that is currently being used by government funded learndirect learners. This design is very detailed with many screens and I was originally going to use this for the project but had to rethink and restart as:

a) I wouldn't be able to develop the website myself (our development teams would do this)

b) I would be restricted by the current style and functionality of our Learning Management System

c) The interworking required between the screens requires high levels of validation to support funding and audit requirements which my skills could not hope to be able to achieve

d) The design has become so successful the organisation is willing to invest significant expenditure to get it ready before august 1st and the current resource plan would require a team of 20 to develop and implement.

I now have to rethink my approach for the design. Reading through the courseware has highlighted lots of deficiencies in my approach to the above design anyway so a fresh start is going to be easier.

An e-communications designed to meet a specific requirement

This will be very interesting and I have a website account with Weebly.com so I think I will produce the site there. I think the topic will be around the web and learning.