In a study regarding student perceptions of high-quality online learning findings revealed: “students’ perceptions of a high-quality course were dependent upon continual communication with the instruction, a predetermined method of connecting students with one another and students’ ability to express their opinions. Different group activities and the use of technology allowed online learners to makeContinueContinue reading “Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI) – VoiceThread”
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Overview of Blackboard LMS
Learning Management Systems (LMS) are online softwares that allow an organization to house information for users. “The role of a Learning Management System varies depending on the organization’s objectives, online training strategy, and desired outcomes (Pappas, 2017, para. 2). LMS allows for organizations to store and track information. A couple of LMS include Blackboard, Canvas,ContinueContinue reading “Overview of Blackboard LMS”
Week 4 – Reflective Journal
Chapter 14 Summary “Human performance improvement (HPI) vision is to achieve, through people, increasingly successful accomplishments that are valued by all organizational stakeholders’ those who perform, their managers and customers, their peers and colleagues, shareholders, regulatory agencies, and ultimately society itself” (Reiser & Dempsey, 2018, p. 122). Human – centered on efforts and results ofContinueContinue reading “Week 4 – Reflective Journal”
Week 3 – Reflective Journal
Chapter 10 Summary “Assessments, be they multiple-choice items, essays, or products developed by the learners, should require learners to demonstrate the skills as they are described in the objectives in the instruction” (Reiser & Dempsey, 2017, p. 87). There are two evaluation concepts: formative and summative. Information obtained from: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/staff/elevate/essentials/assessment-feedback-1 There are several evaluation modelsContinueContinue reading “Week 3 – Reflective Journal”
Week 2 – Reflective Journal Entry
Chapter 6 & 7 Overview Chapter 6 “Regardless of the difference among psychological perspectives on learning, an underlying assumption of most is that instruction will bring about learning” (Reiser & Dempsey, 2017, p. 52). There have been distinctions between “learning as an instructed process and learning as a cultural process” (Reiser & Dempsey, 2017, p.ContinueContinue reading “Week 2 – Reflective Journal Entry”
Week 1 – Reflective Journal Entry
Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 Overview Chapter 2 – History of Instructional Design & Technology “Instructional media has been defined as the physical means via which instruction is presented to learners” (Reiser & Dempsey, 2017, p. 8). Instructional media can include: live instructor, textbook, and computer; however, historically “three primary means of instruction prior toContinueContinue reading “Week 1 – Reflective Journal Entry”
PM Journal #5
Obtained from: https://www.knowatom.com/blog/how-do-formative-assessments-benefit-students Building a website that allows people to access information can be a valuable tool; however, evaluating the effectiveness of the website will be difficult. One way to evaluate the website is by analytics of visitors to the page. Another way to evaluate is the views on YouTube of the video lessons. ParentsContinueContinue reading “PM Journal #5”
PM Journal Entry #4
Over the past week, I’ve obtained The Gospel Project curriculum from the Children’s Church Director. I also purchased an external CD drive since the lessons are provided on a cd. There are not any free videos available, so any videos used for the lessons will need to be created by me or by other children’sContinueContinue reading “PM Journal Entry #4”
PM Journal Entry #3
This week started off with the realization that the development of this project for Corpus Christi Christian Fellowship to have a website for Children’s Church does not necessarily have the typical steps of building a product and then having the client review it, making necessary modifications and then having the client sign off to putContinueContinue reading “PM Journal Entry #3”
PM Journal Entry #2
At first the goal to go online for the church was a short-term goal to meet the needs of the children during COVID-19; however, after speaking with church leadership, it seems that the new website will become a long-term goal. With this in mind, it will require more development and planning for longer than twoContinueContinue reading “PM Journal Entry #2”
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