Attendance and Participation: This is a graduate seminar and attendance, promptness and participation are expected. Students are expected to participate in class and as part of the course WebBoard conferences. Students are also expected to read assignments prior to class and to come prepared to share ideas, experiences, and opinions.
On-line Discussions:
In an attempt to elevate and increase our discourse, there will be a series
of discussion conferences on our MIT 510 WebBoard. As a student in
MIT 510, you are expected to browse, read, and participate sharing your
experiences, thoughts and ideas with us. Also, you must facilitate one
discussion topic in the WebBoard. As a participant, a minimum of three
high quality posting for each topic is expected of each student.
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Open Book Exams: Students are expected to take and pass two open book exams that cover material emphasized in MIT 510. When taking the exams, students may use any reference materials they like to answer given questions. However, they are expected not to discuss their answers with other classmates. The first exam will cover approximately the first half of the course and the second will cover the second half. The questions will be open-ended (short answer and essay) and will require students to compose their own responses. No final examination will be given.
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Project Part I (Front-End Analysis Report)
Each student will select any system which is not operating as it should and that can presumably be improved by developing and implementing a new education or training program. The system should be large and complex enough to provide a challenge. This means that improving the system must require a lot of people to change what they are doing. In particular, it should be necessary for at least 10 instructors to teach the new content or use new methods in order to deliver the planned instruction. Click here to view examples of acceptable programs. Since this is a course for instructional designers, you will be asked to select a problem (need) that can be solved by designing instruction. Upon selecting a systems and identifying the performance decrement problem, in Project Part I you will conduct a front-end analysis. Click here to view the detail description of the Front-End Analysis Report.
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Project Part II (The Project Proposal)
Given Project Part I, each student will prepare a proposal to carry out the development project that had been identified in front-end analysis (Part I). The proposal should be directed at a person or group with necessary authority to approve, or fund the project and be designed to gain approval. The proposal should describe the problem to be solved within the operating system and it should detail how the proposed instructional program(s) would be designed, developed, and implemented such that the problem is solved. The description should be as specific as possible and should refer to a flow chart of milestone events and activities, and a staffing plan which should be included as appendices. If you decide to include a budget (optional)-extra credit) refer to as well (suggested formats for the appendices will be provided). Each student should follow the proposal format suggested (click here to view detail description of the proposal content and format), or if you clear with the instructor, you may follow the standard format used by some real organization or agency. In any case, the information listed in detail description of the project part II should be build into the proposal.
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