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EDN 301 : Instructional Design & Evaluation

Course Description

EDN 301 is designed to provide conceptual tools and analytic skills essential to planning, implementing, and evaluating instruction. The design of instruction that incorporates behavioral, cognitive and constructivist theories of learning and views of curriculum will be considered. Topics: types of learning; conditions of learning; performance objectives; purposes, forms, and procedures for educational assessment; task analysis, and lesson design.

Course Goals

The goals for this course are to help students:

• gain knowledge of the North Carolina goals and objectives and national trends in school curriculum.
• gain knowledge of contemporary thought and practice in an instructional area within her/his specialty area.
• develop skills and information necessary to plan, implement, and assess effective instruction
• develop precision in oral and written expression.

Course Expected Learning Outcomes

• Given a description of different external learning conditions, the student will generate analysis of the condition by describing the learning theories being applied in the condition.
• The student will classify desired outcomes by domain and type of learning according to the Gagne taxonomy of learning outcomes. 
• Given instructional content, the student will generate instructional plans that demonstrate a clear understanding of the principles of effective instructional design.
• Given a target objective for a selected unit of instruction, the student will demonstrate learning task analysis by creating a learning hierarchy which specifics the order and relationship among those enabling objectives necessary to obtain the target objective.
• The student will demonstrate external conditions of learning appropriate to the domain and type of the intended learning by producing a lesson design incorporating the nine functions of instruction specified by the Gagne-Briggs model. The student will be able to explain how to modify the nine functions into a 6-point plan or other forms of instructional plan.
• The student will demonstrate selecting pertinent forms of media/technology and materials in order to achieve targeted objectives.
• The learner will identify assessment strategy alternatives given descriptions of a series of intended learning outcomes, instructional settings, and audiences.