•MON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Fall Semester 2000

EDUC 463 - 4

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Larry Wiebe

Multimedia for Curriculum Design ?

Office: EDB 8502

Phone: 291-4212

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E-mail: wiebe@sfu.ca

Wednesday 16:30-20:20 in EDB 8500

PREREQUISITE

Educ 401/402 (or permission from the instructor)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course focuses primarily on the evaluation of multimedia software packages in relation to important curricular,

instructional and software design issues. A secondary focus will be the student design and production of a

multimedia package for use in an educational setting.

COURSE OUTCOMES

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Evaluate commercially available software packages against know characteristics of effective instruction;

• Explain and discuss software and interface design principles related to the effective display of educational

material (e.g. page layout, use of colour, design consistency, etc.);

• Evaluate the implementation of educational software in a variety of learning environments against a range of

expected learning outcomes, classroom processes and individual learner and teacher needs; and

• Synthesize what has been learned in the evaluation of commercial software and apply to the development of a

simple multimedia production.

ASSIGNMENTS

Students will demonstrate competence with the required learning outcomes for the course by completing these

assignments:

• Presentation and written critique of a commercially produced educational multimedia software.

• Summary of readings demonstrating understanding of issues associated with evaluating, designing and

integrating multimedia into the curriculum.

• Planning, completing, and demonstration of simple multimedia instructional units with a defined academic

and theoretical framework using presentation software, multimedia authoring software and WWW authoring

software.

EVALUATION

Course evaluation will be based on mark distribution as follows:

1.

Software evaluation - 20%

2. Summary of readings - 20%

3.

Multimedia projects (2) - 60%

REQUIRED TEXT

Welsh, M. (1997). Orchestrating Multimedia. Concord, ON: Irwin. ISBN:

077252503X (165

pages/Paperback)

Readings (available online and from current literature) will be provided to complete the academic and theoretical

framework for the course.

OPTIONAL TEXT

Grabe, M. & Grabe, C. (1998). Integrating technolog

y

for meaningful Learning. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN:

0-395-87136-0 (452

pages/paperback)

OTHER COURSE COSTS:

Students will be expected to purchase material to complete projects and pay for photocopying of readings used in

class and for completion of projects.