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The structure of course helps the student understand the large concepts to smaller concepts. 

 

Adding rich media and meaningful interactivity requires a fair amount of planning and refinement. 

It is important to present the instruction in a format that every student can easily format. I feel like I spent more time trying to get my flash plug-ins to work than I did engaged in the lesson content.

 

A course has structural integrity if its content is borken up into coherent sections based on rational framework. All content should be accessable, varied, and on level.

An absence of easy navigation can be demoralizing to the student, especially at the start of the class. It's like having a party and not inviting guests in to the house

Learning will be more beneficial if there is organization and sequence in the course with multiple ways to learn. I will make sure if online teaching I will break the units into modules to make it more organized not only for students but also for myself.

A well laid out and organized online learning system that allows for different type of learners to be successful. 

Student's need a course that's easy to follow and understand when a teacher and peers are not physically avaiable to help.  Having the breakdown of learning modules into lesseons helps the student's understand and follow the course content.  Navigation buttons also another way to allow ease of access to the student's.  

It would be important when creating online lessons to break the lesson down into modules, lessons and topics, and be sure to create links so that it is easy for the user/learner to navigate. Otherwise, they could become frustrated. 

 

You need all four charactereristics to design the best online instructions which will inspirer the student to learn at higher levels.

Zach Bernal

first the student must have internet access and a reliable laptop or desktop and must have some skill to understand how to navigate on the computer. This must be a priorty with students and  by the instructor teaching the courses to reduce stress to the students.

Second the modules are great so students understand  each of the modules will help the students to navigate through the courses in a easy way so they do not get discouraged and having studente drop.

 

My takeaway is the student's first impression. If they see an intuitive sturucture, they are inclined to stay engaged. 

 

This is a helpful way to think about how I will tackle online learning in the fall.  I like the idea of thinking in terms of modules, lessons, and topics.  This will then allow me to break down the ways in which my students will interact with the material and may help them with navigation.  My school system is using TEAMS and my courses for CTE are PLTW biomedical which has it own online platform.  If just find it difficult to translate one learning platform to another when the PLTW platform does not make it easy to copy documents and activities. I also teach one course of 9th graders and they have great difficulties navigating through two different learning platforms.   I am hoping this course will give me some ideas.  I also should say that neither of the learning platforms that I use connect to my school grade book so I must take all grades and input them into another online program. 

I learned that navigational simplicity refers to the ability of an e-learning to move through the course accessing notes, links, and other features of the class.

I learned the objectives for the course, and that online courses need to be navigable, interactive, and engaging. I could not access any of the Flash player content.

 

I learned that having quality media combined with quality interaction equates to better engagement and retention of information.

 

The course covers various learning activities that are supported in an e-learning environment and describes the typical components of an online course.

Quality online courses should intergrate btween the following four areas: Structural Integrity, Navigational Simplicity, Active Learner- Centered Learning, and Intellectual Interaction.

 

Online courses must be well structured and allow participants to interact with one another. 

 

The explanation of how the organization and ease of navigation help the student make so much sense and is really eye-opening. 

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