Designing an eLearning environment and measuring effectiveness

Assignment 2 – Designing an eLearning environment and measuring effectiveness

1. Written assignment (submitted through Moodle) – 4,200 words (or equivalent
2. Blog (marked online) – 300 words
3. Apply a range of technologies to the design of elearning
4. environment relevant to own social environment/context (4,200 words
5. or equivalent total)
6. Based upon your analysis you conducted for Assignment One, design an
7. elearning environment that will help achieve the major educational goals
8. you have identified.
9. Note: this elearning environment can be based upon and used to deliver or
10. support a single topic or unit of work.
11. You will need to provide the following:
12. 1.1 An overall plan of the presentation structure (McCormack and
13. Jones, 1998, pp. 67-73) of the system showing how the different
14. components are used. This can be in the form of a site map
15. (equivalent to 500 words – 500 words discussing your plan –
16. this can be replaced by a site map – a site map can be worth close
17. to 500 words).
18. 1.2 Samples of a homepage, information page and activities page
19. ONLY. These can simply be drafted in Word; they do not have to
20. be coded in HTML or be functional (equivalent to 2,500 words –
21. this equates to three pages of several pictures/images which could
22. be worth up to a total of 2,500 words. You will need to annotate
23. each picture and use a few words on your sample pages).
24. EDIT 521 Principles and Practices of eLearning
25. – Assessment Tasks
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28. 1.3 Description of one online activity and discussion of how it will help
29. achieve the educational goals identified in Assignment One (200
30. words).
31. 1.4 Discussion of the pedagogical principles upon which your
32. elearning system is based. (1000 words)