Month: October 2020

Interaction Prompt

Instructional design is the creation of “instructional experiences which make the acquisition of knowledge and skill more efficient, effective, and appealing. (Merrill, Drake, Lacy, Pratt, 1996).” The instructional design includes three parts, tools, people, and organizations. The tools have the process, theory, and physical. The people include management, ID Teams, SMEs, Learners. Organizations have government, corporation, military, higher ED, and K-12. Whilst it has been argued that an interactive learning system has the potential to produce a high‐quality learning environment that actively and purposefully engages learners, in most cases the design does not take into account actual studies of learners’ different learning styles or empirical knowledge of their learning preferences. The video describes what instructional design is and what it includes. Interaction is valuable for long-term learning habits, and understanding these concepts with full support. The design is very useful for classroom environments and online lectures.

After watching the video, give students a certain amount of time to accept new knowledge, and then let them take notes. You can check their learning situation by letting students take photos and upload the photos of the notes. This activity will not bring me a lot of workloads, because I only need to check the notes uploaded by the students. The work is both manageable and worthwhile because this is the best way to check the students’ own learning process and ability. The video needs to be designed to be lively and interesting and need to have knowledge in it. Because only interesting videos can attract more people to watch, and when there is a certain amount of knowledge in your video, students are more willing to learn knowledge through this interesting way. Interactive learning is a necessary and fundamental mechanism for knowledge acquisition and the development of both cognitive and physical skills. Before designing interactive learning resources it is important to understand how interactivity works and the nature of the environments that are needed to support it. The effectiveness of these environments also needs to be examined.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0iQgStGND4

Article: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-011-0942-0_1

（Prompt）Inclusive Design

In interactive learning, communication and sharing are the most important factors. In order to ensure that the needs of all learners are met, group discussions and joint projects are very important. Interactive Learning is a pedagogical approach that incorporates social networking and urban computing into course design and delivery. Interactive Learning has evolved out of the hyper-growth in the use of digital technology and virtual communication, particularly by students.

There are 5 ways to make interactive learning. Firstly, asking for feedback, any opportunity for the learner to leave feedback is a great opportunity for interaction. How we respond to feedback can also have other advantages in simplifying the process and making it more relevant. Secondly, letting people choose the way, give learners the choice to choose the starting point of the topic and unit so that they can immediately select relevant content, and participate in the plan. Students can be guided in the learning process through suggestions or some compulsory courses, but letting them choose the order of learning topics can enhance learners’ ability and participation. Thirdly, make it social, Social functions such as sharing and commenting on content are part of the way most of us are accustomed to communicating. Combined with gamification, this makes any course more interactive. It is also very interesting for learners. Fourthly, invite learners to contribute, letting learners contribute their knowledge by providing resources, or hosting online group learning sessions is another way to empower them. Finally, encourage peer evaluation, enabling learners to review each other’s work, which deepens their understanding of what they are doing, and encourages a culture of sharing, which is valuable for spreading best practices.

Now we are in a difficult time for COVID-19. The network is a very important factor that allows us to learn interactively. Engaging learners in your online learning program is the key to ensuring they learn effectively and get the most out of what they are doing. the most effective way to make learners more engaged in what they are doing is to make it interactive.