9 Levels of Events Instruction

Week 3:

Today we learned about the 9 levels of events for instructional design concepts. They are really helpful.
 
Gagne's The Nine Events of Instruction

Level	Event
I	Gaining Attention (reception)
II	Informing learnings of the objective (expectancy)
III	Stimulating recall of prior knowledge (retrieval)
IV	Presenting stimulus (selective perception)
V	Providing learning guidance (semantic encoding)
VI	Eliciting performance (responding)
VII	Providing feedback (reinforcement)
VIII	Assessing performance (retrieval)
IX	Enhancing retention and transfer (generalization)

So for my short demo tutorial. I am going to teach students or users how to download the course syllabus from Casabasa website. It needs at least 3 interactions with clicking. Users are able to click on those for help and to continue. At the end, we are supposed to create a quiz. So I only made 3 questions with 2 multiple choices and 1 true or false questions. I made questions about the demo. I will be making a supporting web page soon for the demo.

e-Learning Principles

Week 2:

What I learned today was about the general e-Learning principles. They are really helpful. The principles are mostly about how to get users to click or let them notice. I understood the principles telling us to use images/graphics as well as text close to each other, and must be relevant so it won't confuse the users. It is best not to add a lot of interesting materials or flashy things because it distracts the users out of focusing on the main content. I agree because it's true!

• Signaling
• Dual mode
• Multimedia principle
• Contiguity principle
• Modality principle
• Redundancy principle 
• Coherence principle
• Personalization principle

Later, we learned about using the Adobe Captivate program. Right now, I'm still new at using this program. I want to learn how to make a teaching video/swf just like this tutorial example: Uploading Your Photos. It's a really good tutorial. I don't know how to create buttons to go next page or textboxes yet. Soon, I hope.

Multimedia in Learning

[MM3312 Computer-based Training] Summer Quarter 2011
Week 1: Research Multimedia in Learning

This week we are supposed to research how is the best ways to teach the benefits of using multimedia in learning applications. We pick 1 out of the 3 types of transfer of learning.

Transfer of Learning - the application of skills and knowledge learned in one context being applied in another context (Cormier & Hagman, 1987)
 

There are 3 types of multimedia Transfer of Learning:

1. Inform - teach them some information
2. Near transfer perform - like teaching a software and is step by step
3. Far transfer perform - there is no exact answers, but several possible solutions or performances that could be elicted, to help narrow your focus.

Final Project: WizQuiz [DONE]

WizQuiz homepage

WizQuiz Quizzes page

WizQuiz  individual quiz page

WizQuiz category page

Observational User Testing for WizQuiz

Week 8:
The website is not yet completed, but there must be some user testings for feedbacks.

WizQuiz homepage

Here are a few questions I asked for user testing: (6 users)

1. What do you do when you're bored on the computer? Would you use this website to take fun quizzes?
2. What catches your eye right when you enter the website?
3. Does the website look fun for you to come back again?
4. Did you know how to navigate and search for what you're looking for? Easy to use?
5. Would you recommend the website to others?
6. Any other suggestions you can give me for the website?