session 4

"forth Assignment "

1. Explain what is meant by the dichotomy between the Internet as Content Transmitter and Internet as Communication Tool. Explain your perspective on this dichotomy.???

Internet serve students through two ways:
First: “Provides the content to students” through Blackboard , an audio lecture, video lecture ,podcast .
Teacher can record his voice and post it in his website, or in blackboard with some question to make sure his student understand the lecture also he add some links about the object of the lecture in the blackboard to help student to learn more. Students can listen to the lecture and answer the question and send it to teacher email.
Second: “communicate between students and their teachers also with student themselves” through blog , email, Live Messenger, Skype, and Web Site.
I like using the Internet as a communication tool because I didn’t deal with it before I came to America, I learned a lot of things in online class like ; how to create webpage, blogs, using chatting program.

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2. How can good instructional design ensure that the course meets student needs?

* The good instructional design can ensure that the course meets student needs in many ways

* The good instructor always need his students feedback about the learning experience in courses. When the feedback is negative the instructors should be flexible and fax any raising problems wail keeping the project on track

* The good instructor always want make sure his students understand his lecture by give them question in blackboard or by email.

* The good instructor try to make every student active in his blogs by ask him to add every post weekly, and also make comment in other student blogs.

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3. How can good instructional design ensure course quality?

The good instruction design should focus in many things to make ensure about course quality:

*The course should have Interaction between the students with each other and between the student and the teacher also the course should be easy to use by students.

*The good instructor asks his students to give hem feedback about the learning experience in the course.

*The Instructional design can ensure course quality by student answer for the their homeworks or the student comments with each other in our blogs he should make sure that all students are on the same track.

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4. What is the difference between course level and individual activity level design?

The course level will be focus on specific objective of the course and different activity that related to technology for example: blackboard, lecture ,podcast.

Individual activity level based on students discussion and sharing their information with each other by using blogs to make comment with each other or by using email.

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5. Using the first three stages of the ADDIE (or another) instructional design model, explain how you would go about developing an online course. Note: You do not have to deal with delivering the course at this time.

Be sure to start by giving a brief synopsis of the type of course you are designing for but try to make no assumptions about the content, the instructor or the students.

Start with Analysis: What methods would you use to understand:

A. Student Characteristics and Expectations

Students don’t know how to deal with website with use html language and blog, the teacher interested to add this technology in their class, but they have little experience with create website “HTML” and blog.

B. Instructor Characteristics and Expectations

Instructor is very successful in create website with use html language and blog.

C. Content

Contents will include podcast and videos/audios and some website page can explain to students how to create website and use blogs.

d. How to Determine if Content Has Been Learned

To determine whether content has been learned is to have each student create own website by using HTML and using blogs.

Next deal with Design: What method or process would you use to design the course? What kinds of constraints would your CMS force on you as a designer?

To design the course I would use a university library and do a lot of search about how to create website by use HTML. The student can contact with me by using email and website. The CMS will limited students and teachers creativity because it provide teacher with limited tools so teacher cannot develop their skills

Finally, explain how you would do development and testing of content.

In developing my project, I will post every information in my blackboard to help them to create their own website and own blog, and ask them to email me everything that they finished so far, that I can see their skills development. Also I will provide them with good website that shows them how to improve their skills. At the end I will grades them according to their development on there website.