Individual Student Requirements

Individual Web portfolio - includes elements such as:

• introduction
• personal goals
• resume
• potential and realized contributions to the team
• evidence/linking of contributions to project Web site/class assignments on Web
• concept map of personal understanding of instructional design and development
• personal reflections prompted by action learning questions and development as a designer
  • documenting your personal growth/development as an instructional designer
  • contributions and actions by individual promoting team progress and leadership
  • integration of developing understanding of instructional design and development process
  • integration of application of concepts from instructional design literature
  • documenting the use of team skills
  • insights, realizations and aha's related to multimedia design and development
  • development of skills applied to project
  • writing products/peer review of writing documentation
• synthesis of task analysis methodology
  • Web page developed on a task analysis method and presented to class
• synthesis of an instructional strategy/approach
  • Web page developed on instructional strategy/instructional approach and presented to class

Individual Web-based portfolio may also include or these elements may be turned in on paper:

• Personal interest article
  • 8-10 page article on an aspect of instructional design and development
  • includes literature review of approximately 20 reference in APA style
  • modeled after article in prominent journal in the field: Educational Technology, ETR&D, Tech Trends, etc
  • potentially publishable topic
  • rough draft due at mid-point of second semester and final draft due 3-4 weeks later
  • rough draft reviewed by fellow student(s) with comments submitted to instructor
  • final draft reviewed by fellow student(s) with comments and revisions submitted to instructor

Other individual activities include:

• Program evaluation activities
  • participation in program formative evaluation and assessment
  • may involve individual interviews, survey responses and other data collection

• Overall Project plan
• Project Web site
• Weekly project actions/tasks (Monday) and status reports (Fridays)
• Plan for performance analysis/needs assessment
• Summary of SME project meeting
• Performance analysis/needs assessment /project planning document*
• Learner analysis/setting analysis/implications for design document*
• Task analysis*
• Objectives*
• Assessment methods*
• Summary of instructional approach/metaphor for project*
• Identification of CBT/WBT program and review of applicable instructional strategies
• Content Outline*
• Instructional strategies selected and rationale based on theoretical framework*
• Prototype blueprint/treatment materials*
• Draft materials developed
• Memo documenting revisions of draft materials*
• Formative evaluation report*
• Master prototype materials developed
• Final Presentation of prototype to SMEs

* Items also compiled into a paper-based design document in addition to posted on the Web.

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