Just when you are getting used to it, the quarter is over.
Our classes packed a lot into a short amount of time!
This course confirmed my interest in pursuing this Educational Technology degree and highlighted the relevance of this field to my career. This program builds on my previous undergraduate study of user-centered design and analysis (Cornell University Dept. of Design and Environmental Analysis), my user-centered experience as a public librarian and user education experience as an academic librarian and online instructor. The concepts of user-centered design, "universal design"and accessibility are familiar and it is so beneficial to learn methods to best apply them to design effective learning environments.
So much in the textbook is timely for me, not only as introduction to the theories, terminology and research of instructional technology, but as a guide for evaluating and selectively incorporating tools and methods to facilitate learning. This statement by the textbook authors echos statements of educators, academic librarians and educational administrators, "We need to take stock of the shifts technology and alternative perspectives on learning and pedagogy have engendered in how we think about, provide, and evaluate how we teach and learn." (p374)
Thank you Kimberly, for the great introduction and chance
to practice
using some of the high-level, user-friendly tools and techniques of
instructional design. The projects for this class gave me a chance to
try things I have been avoiding and help me feel more confident to try
them again.
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