Course Description: EDUC 6405
Designing Digital Learning
How can we best design multimedia materials? What tools and approaches are best? To answer these questions, you will learn about the design, development, integration, and use of multimedia resources in education and training settings. You will also examine and critique multimedia technologies, develop instructional materials, and create an instructional unit/module (IMU) that applies instructional design theory, as well as critique your peers’ work.
Objectives: In this course, students will:
- Apply basic principles of web design, instructional design, Universal Design for Learning, usability, graphic design, accessibility, and copyright - particularly examining how these apply to the World Wide Web;
- Explore definitions of and issues about e-learning;
- Evaluate and utilize Internet resources for designing instruction;
- Develop instructional materials for the WWW;
- Design a web-based unit/module of instruction; and
- Evaluate and provide constructive feedback to peers.
