Saturday, November 24, 2012
Educ 633: Webliography Blog
Hope everyone had a safe and blessed Thanksgiving break!!!
I enjoyed mines with family and for that I am thankful :)
Chapter 7 focused primarily on the coherence principle. This principle was used to describe an uncluttered learning environment in an education setting where the focus is geared towards the content. Everything that is implemented into online learning should add to the instructional process rather than defer away from the content that is relevant. Extraneous things that maybe add to the overall look or interest of the viewers, but they do very little for the actual content that is taught, should not be integrated into online instruction.
This point is important because it can assist instructors with designing their course. It is important that students are not being distracted by content that is presented on a webpage and forget the overall purpose of what should be retained through the assignment. This point did change my view on instructional design because it gave me more insight into more things that must be taken into consideration when planning an online course. Audio and visual cues as well as text size was not necessarily something that I had considered; and definitely in respect to the possible distractions that could present themselves. This point is also relevant to my ISD project because it also aligns with not adding “fillers” or irrelevant material just to meet requirements, but rather providing quality, relevant information.
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Hello Porcherty,
ReplyDeleteIt seems that you and I wrote about the same topic. I feel the coherence principle is very important in the learning process, especially for slower learners or at-risk learners. Educator's need to be really careful about overloading the work memory in students. Making sure to avoid extraneous audio, graphics, and text is very important. I guess if anything was unclear to me about the principle, I guess it would be if researchers were sure it was these items that were the source of issue and what is considered too much. This did change my view because I relied more on arousal theory in my previous online creations and now I know it is crucial that I consider the cognitive processes of the students as well. We will have to consider this during our ISD projects as not to overwhelm our participants or overload their working memory as they work through the workshop. This is relevant to my job now and in the future because I plan to start working more with blended learning. I can hopefully guide my team at work as we start planning, designing, and implementing these programs.