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Syllabus
Instructor
TJ Kopcha, Assistant Professor
tkopcha@mail.sdsu.edu
619.594.2503Office Hours:
Mondays 4-6pm;
Tues 3-4pm or 6-7pm
via Moodle ChatRoomWebsite: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/People/tkopcha/Welcome.html
My Blog: http://tjkopcha.wordpress.com/
Follow me on Twitter: tkopcha
Introduction
This section of EDTEC 544 is specifically tailored for the COMET program.All examples, activities and assignments are designed to be relevant to the
needs of California K-12 teachers.
Instructional design (also commonly referred to as ID or ISD) is a core component of our field, and a foundational skill that all educational technologists should have in their repertoire. Born from the military’s need to rapidly train large numbers of people on complex procedures during World War II, instructional design has been used for the past sixty years to train people in corporate, education, government, and a host of other settings. Through the careful planning of instructional events, content, and media, ISD is a powerful tool for effectively and efficiently making people proficient in the skills and knowledge that your organization requires.
In this course, you will adopt one simple yet pragmatic approach to instructional design that you will be able to adapt and apply to your instructional design needs in the future. You will also survey different instructional theories and their associated methods, so that you can experience how to leverage each theory’s relative strengths and when/where to apply them appropriately.Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, you will be able to:
- Determine the needs of an instructional problem using audience, environment, function and task analyses.
- Visually represent and organize instructional needs using a content map.
- Specify the outcome and sequencing of an instructional unit using well-written, measurable instructional objectives.
- Specify appropriate instructional methods, delivery media, instruction, practice, assessment, and support tools for instructional objectives using a design document.
- Develop a design document that communicates a designed instructional sequence.
Materials
Website
- The course’s Moodle site (www.edwiki.org/moodle) will be your primary resource for readings, assignments, discussion, exams, and grades. If you are unable to access the site, please contact me at tkopcha@mail.sdsu.edu.
Edbreeze
- Weekly synchronous classes will be held online in an Edbreeze video chat room. The URL for that room is http://edbreeze.sdsu.edu/sp08comet -- log in as a guest using your name.
Electronic Course Reserves
- The readings for this course are free and available through a service at SDSU called the ECR. To find the readings for this course, visit http://ecr.sdsu.edu/eres and click on ELECTRONIC RESERVES. Search for KOPCHA and use the password: comet544 (no space).
Google Docs
- You and the instructor will share a document in Google Docs. Please create a Gmail account (http://gmail.google.com) as soon as possible and submit your username.
