University
of Arizona Project Description
MOATS –
Module Organizer and Teaching Suggestor
- Statement
of Intent – My intent is to create an instrument with which an
instructor, or instructional support person, can enter an instructional
problem or goal and a wizard will suggest an array of solutions or processes
to attain it. The array should be displayed along a continuum based on the
inputs concerning the instructor’s goals, preferences, and/or key instructional
variables such as learner characteristics, subject matter content and learning
task characteristics, or other contextual variables such as course level,
class size, and teaching philosophy.
- Proposed
Outcomes & Scope of the Project -
- To
make instructional design and development prescriptive theories (to include
at least one in each of the following domains: behavioral, cognitive,
social) available to higher education, in an immediate, theoretically
valid, and pedagogically useful way.
- To
define, for the purposes of the above statement intent, a set of relationships
between the “key terms” of each selected design theory that can be useful
in defining the relationships between the “key terms” of additional prescriptive
instructional design theories.
- To
offer examples of good instructional strategies in a range prioritized
to a user’s preferred mode of instruction with resources for further investigation
if the user desires.
- To
store previous instructional queries for future use and investigation
per user.
i.
To draw
on other user’s queries.
- To
be able to systematically add to the data set of instructional design
and development prescriptive theories used in the instrument
i.
For discussion
with the programmer & database designer – previous existing theories
new information
1.
To permit the user to add to the data set via a wizard
2.
To limit the additions to administrator users
ii.
For discussion
with the programmer & database designer – add new theories
1.
To permit the user to add to the data set via a wizard
2.
To limit the additions to administrator users
- Requirements
& Resources
- Software
license – Thinkmap (developer’s license- currently; users’ license – eventually)
- Server
for database - Oracle
- Programming
data– Java, XML (thinking within, but need to discuss with programmer
& database developer to make sure)
- People
Resources – in the following resources we need Flash experience; not as
an additional person, but folded within one of the resource skill sets