Journal of formative design in learning最新文献

In higher education, digital badging programs can supplement a student's degree by helping them connect their experiences on-campus to those outside of the classroom, encouraging them to think and apply the knowledge they gain from their college or university to real-world situations. This article discusses the perceptions of participants in a pilot digital badge program to identify important milestones, collaborative efforts, and barriers believed to be instrumental in designing a successful digital badge initiative through a school–university partnership. The purpose of this exploratory case study was to understand how students and members of a school–university partnership perceived the use of an earned digital badge to embrace the legitimacy of instructional technology competencies that can be used as career currency. Data collection included student and partner interviews, badge assessment results, and meeting documentation. Results of the study were framed using Rogers’ (2003) innovation diffusion theory to identify the critical characteristics of the pilot digital badge initiative through a school–university partnership. Results found that relevance to professional opportunities, value to stakeholders, and sustainability plans contributed to relative advantage, compatibility, trialability, and observability. Additionally, results found communication and timing contributed to complexity barriers. Results of the current study will be used to further develop a successful digital badge initiative through an ongoing school–university partnership.

As MOOCs have become a standard format of online learning, it is increasingly important to design courses that fit the needs and contexts of the targeted learners. One way to do so is by actively designing with the subject experts, instructors, and other stakeholders. Within the context of designing MOOCs for disadvantaged groups in Southeast Asia, we explore the three-phase process of co-design. We present a graphical modeling language, CoDe-Graph, which can be used to facilitate the co-design process. We examine how diverse groups of experts provide feedback on design elements and create a common understanding using shared artifacts. Four case studies illustrate how the tool can be used by co-design teams to create and visualize custom MOOC designs.

Higher education institutions have been increasingly dependent on adjunct faculty to provide instruction at undergraduate and graduate levels. At professional schools, most faculty begin teaching graduate courses with limited to no formal training or teaching experience as industry expertise is the primary requirement for employment. Despite the availability of ample pedagogical resources to advance teaching, these faculty require additional support during their induction into academia. This paper describes the design and operationalization of the New York University Faculty Success Initiative (FSI), an innovative, semi-structured, faculty-centered onboarding and professional development program that provides quality, longer term preparation to new faculty throughout their first semester of instruction to increase their teaching effectiveness and their sense of connection to their academic unit. An analysis of multiple qualitative and quantitative data sources indicates that FSI led to an increase in teaching effectiveness and played a significant role in transitioning professional faculty from practitioners to educators.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s41686-022-00069-x.

As eLearning becomes an increasingly common strategy to minimize instructional disruptions caused by illness, weather, professional development, and other planned and unplanned events, teachers need to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to design and facilitate these non-traditional learning experiences. Informed by survey and interview data, we developed three learning modules designed to assist PK-12 teachers in preparing, planning, and facilitating eLearning experiences. In describing this design process, we focus this case on design judgments, described here as the deliberate and unconscious thinking processes experienced by designers in the design and development of learning experiences. Through this experience, we found that design judgments occur constantly throughout the design process and manifest themselves in non-linear and sometimes unpredictable ways. With this focus on design judgments, we aim to provide a view of instructional design that can sensitize designers to the complexities of authentic design experience.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s41686-022-00063-3.

Metacognition is a key component of ill-structured problem solving. As such, there is a need for instructional design guidance for metacognitive skill development. This study addressed this need through the creation of a computer-based interactive content design framework to guide the design of metacognitive scaffolds for ill-structured problem-solving instruction. It utilized a type II design and development research approach and formative design principles to create a comprehensive and generalizable instructional design framework. The framework was composed by synthesizing research and practical literature and evaluated by experts in related fields. Key components of the framework include metacognitive strategies, instructional design strategies, interactive media types, question prompts, and feedback. Instructors, course developers, and other key stakeholders could follow the guidelines proposed in this framework to create metacognitive-based ill-structured problem-solving instruction using e-Learning authoring tools. This study bridges the gap between theory and practice, as well as adds to literature in media research with focusing on utilizing various media types to create effective learning materials.

As part of a design-based research project, we designed, developed, and evaluated a web-based microlearning intervention in the form of a comic into the problem of COVID-19 online misinformation. In this paper, we report on our formative evaluation efforts. Specifically, we assessed the degree to which the comic was effective and engaging via responses to a questionnaire (n = 295) in a posttest-only non-experimental design. The intervention focused on two learning objectives, aiming to enable users to recognize (a) that online misinformation is often driven by strong emotions like fear and anger, and (b) that one strategy for disrupting the spread of misinformation can be the act of stopping before reacting to misinformation. Results indicate that the comic was both effective and engaging in achieving these learning objectives.

Teaching materials can increase efficiency in learning environments. One type of materials with proven effectiveness is interactive e-books. Interactive e-books based on certain learning strategies are known to be more effective. This study focuses on analyzing, designing, developing, and evaluating an interactive e-book based on the predict-observe-explain method. The design-based research method is adopted in the study. Firstly, two physics education experts, four instructional technology field experts, and ten physics teachers were consulted about the developed interactive e-book. The pilot study with 20 high school students involved non-participant observations. Two physics education experts and four instructional technology field experts graded the developed e-book based on interactive e-book evaluation criteria. The second phase involved the determination of the platform where the interactive e-book would be developed as well as the software and tools to be used for creating multimedia materials. In the third phase, within the scope of the predict-observe-explain method, the kinds of multimedia materials and activities to be included in the e-book were designed with a physics education expert and an instructional technology expert. The interactive e-book was prepared in accordance with the target audience and subject, and design arrangements were made considering the recommendations given. The study can contribute to designers on key points to consider when creating the content of interactive e-books to be developed based on a learning method and designing and developing materials such as video, audio, and animation to be included in them. Furthermore, it can guide designers through principles and rules to be considered in designing the materials contained in interactive e-books.