MBI Graduate program: ME:120.807

Design of Instructional Learning Experiences

Offered: Fourth Quarter / Summer, First Year
Instructors: Anne Altemus, Assistant Professor, Lead Instructor
Jeffrey Day, Assistant Professor
Credits: 3 Credits

summary

This course applies Instructional Design and Learning Experience Design to interactive media programs. Students will work in teams and use design-thinking to create an interactive module, and share their work through a written product pitch booklet and slide presentation. Throughout the course, students will be asked to wear the hats of instructional designer, project manager, producer, subject matter expert, digital media developer, illustrator, user experience designer, and end user.

Course Description

Objectives

  • Design an interactive learning experience
  • Employ a user-centered mentality towards design
  • Create user personas, empathically consider their problems, and ideate solutions
  • Conduct a task analysis
  • Conduct effective interviews with subject matter experts
  • Write preliminary specifications
  • Apply principles of instructional design/learning theories to solving an educational problem
  • Write clear and measurable educational objectives
  • Determine the primary consideration of an effective visual
  • Use UX techniques to determine product architecture
  • Create flowcharts for interactive media
  • Create low-fidelity wireframes for interactive media
  • Conduct moderated usability tests
  • Create storyboards for interactive media
  • Evaluate interface for ease of use and intuitiveness

Assignments

Prepare one (1) complete instructional program project proposal as a team. Topic assigned.

Resources

  • Krug, Steve. Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd  New Riders Press.  2005.
  • Krug, Steve. Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems.  New Riders Press.
  • Lynch, Patrick. Web Style Guide, 3rd Edition: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites.  Yale University Press.
  • Tufte, Edward. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.  Watson-Guptill, 1984.
  • Tufte, Edward. Envisioning Information.  Watson-Guptill, 1984.
  • Tufte, Edward. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative.  Watson-Guptill, 1984.
  • Wurman, Richard Saul. Information Architects. Graphis Inc. 1997

Student Evaluations

  • 1:1 faculty-student interface
  • Single project evaluation form
  • Scheduled class final project presentations and critique
  • Final grade

Schedule

Summer 1st Year

Student Artwork

Gallery of D.I.L.E. Projects

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