Tasks and Duties
For this task, you will develop a comprehensive instructional design strategy for a hypothetical online course on 'Introduction to Project Management'. The objective of this task is to exercise your ability to plan a strategic approach to design an online course. The deliverable for this task is a DOC file containing your instructional design strategy. Key steps to complete this task include: (1) Define the learning objectives of the course; (2) Identify the target audience and their learning needs; (3) Select appropriate instructional methods and media; (4) Plan assessment strategies; (5) Develop a course outline. The evaluation criteria will be based on the comprehensiveness of your strategy, creativity in instructional methods, and appropriateness of assessment strategies. Your strategy should clearly outline how each aspect of the course will contribute to the learning objectives, keeping in mind the target audience’s needs.
This week, you will create a set of learning materials for one module of the online course 'Introduction to Project Management', for which you developed a design strategy in Week 1. The objective is to convert the planning into actual content. The deliverable is a DOC file containing the content for one module. Steps include: (1) Develop the content for the module based on the learning objectives; (2) Design interactive activities to engage the learners; (3) Develop formative assessment items. The evaluation criteria will be the relevance of the content to the learning objectives, effectiveness of the interactive activities, and appropriateness of the assessment items.
This week's task is to develop an evaluation plan for the 'Introduction to Project Management' course. The objective of this task is to determine the effectiveness of the course and identify areas for improvement. The deliverable is a DOC file containing the course evaluation plan. Steps include: (1) Define evaluation objectives; (2) Identify evaluation methods; (3) Develop evaluation tools; (4) Plan data analysis methods. The evaluation criteria will be based on the relevance of the evaluation objectives to the course objectives, appropriateness of the evaluation methods, and practicality of the evaluation tools and data analysis methods.
The final week's task is to develop an iterative improvement plan for the 'Introduction to Project Management' course. The objective of this task is to plan for future improvements based on the evaluation results. The deliverable is a DOC file containing the iterative improvement plan. Steps include: (1) Analyze hypothetical evaluation results; (2) Identify areas for improvement; (3) Plan changes to the course design; (4) Develop a timeline for implementing the changes. The evaluation criteria will be based on the relevance of the identified areas for improvement to the evaluation results, effectiveness of the planned changes, and practicality of the timeline.