[on behalf of Michael Bett]
E-Learning Design Principles and Methods
Course Offered Remotely by
Carnegie Mellon UniversityTaught by
Ken Koedinger
May 19 – August 7, 2020
Enrollments accepted through May 19, 2020.
You can either take this course for:
- A certificate of completion (executive education). The fee for the
certificate is $2796 for the 12-week course.
- Carnegie Mellon University credit. The fee for taking this course for
credit as a non-degree student is $5592.
To start the enrollment process, please complete this form
<https://learnlab.org/index.php/e-learning-theory-course-registration/>.
We’ll get back to you to complete the enrollment.
Course Goals:
This course is about e-learning design principles, the evidence and theory
behind them, and how to apply these principles to develop effective
educational technologies. It is organized around the book “e-Learning and
the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers
of Multimedia Learning” by Clark & Mayer with further readings drawn from
cognitive science, educational psychology, and human-computer interaction.
You will learn design principles and methods for creating highly effective
e-learning courses. You will get practice with these principles and
methods both in online exercises and in projects where you use data and
theory to design, implement, and evaluate an an e-learning course module.
Learning Goals:
- Effectively use and communicate learning principles in e-learning
design and development
- Explain and apply e-learning design principles for:
- combining examples, explanations, practice and feedback in
online support for learning by doing
- combining words, audio, and graphics in multimedia instruction
- balancing learner versus system control and supporting student
metacognition
- Evaluate and improve existing educational technologies using
principles
- Effectively use data-driven methods in e-learning design development
- Select and apply appropriate Cognitive Task Analysis methods to
refine learning goals and learner models
- Design and develop online assessments based on backward design
- Employ user and learner experience methods to guide and evaluate
e-learning designs
- Perform and interpret results of randomized A/B tests to evaluate
e-learning and select principles to apply
Format
Flipped Homework: Reading Quizzes and Reading Reports
You will have “flipped homework”, a variation on the flipped classroom idea
you might have heard of. Flipped homework is an assignment before a
relevant class meeting rather than after it. It helps you to check your
understanding of what you read, to practice to enhance your memory (we will
talk about the “testing effect” in class), and to get a better sense of
what you don’t know so you are prepared to ask questions in class. It also
helps instructors focus the class discussion to better avoid belaboring
known points and pursue student needs and interests.
Before some class sessions, you will be asked to do a quiz associated with
the assigned book chapter. The quizzes will be online. Before other class
sessions, you will be asked to write “reading reports”. We will use the
discussion board on Canvas. You should complete assigned quizzes or reading
reports before 8 am on the day of class. Quizzes can be taken as many times
as you want and your score will be the last attempt before 8 am.
Attendance is required for all class sessions. Absences will affect your
final course grade.
Textbook and Readings
“E-Learning and the Science of Instruction: 4th edition” by Ruth Colvin
Clark and Richard E. Mayer.
Other readings will be assigned in class.
Course Instructor
Dr. Kenneth R. Koedinger
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Ken Koedinger has considerable experience in research and development in
technology-based learning experiments, computer-supported collaborative
learning, intelligent tutoring systems and tutorial dialogue systems. He is
a professor of Human Computer Interaction and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon
University. Dr. Koedinger has an M.S. in Computer Science, a Ph.D. in
Cognitive Psychology, and experience teaching in an urban high school. His
multidisciplinary background supports his research goals of understanding
human learning and creating educational technologies that increase student
achievement. His research has contributed new principles and techniques for
the design of educational software and has produced basic cognitive science
research results on the nature of student thinking and learning. Koedinger
directs LearnLab (learnlab.org), which started with 10 years of National
Science Foundation funding and is now the scientific arm of CMU’s Simon
Initiative (cmu.edu/simon). LearnLab builds on the past success of
Cognitive Tutors, an approach to online personalized tutoring that is in
use in thousands of schools and has been repeatedly demonstrated to
increase student achievement, for example, doubling what algebra students
learn in a school year. He was a founder of Carnegie Learning, Inc. (
carnegielearning.com) that has brought Cognitive Tutor based courses to
millions of students since it was formed in 1998. Dr. Koedinger has
authored over 245 peer-reviewed publications and has been a project
investigator on over 45 grants.
Required Background
The course is intended for anyone with the educational zeal who would like
to learn about e-learning design principles, the evidence and theory behind
them, and how to apply these principles to develop effective educational
technologies. This could include seasoned edutech researchers, advanced
graduate students, computationally sophisticated teachers and commercial or
military instructional developers. Please contact us when in doubt. In the
past, people with a variety of backgrounds have taken this course including
psychology, education, human-computer interaction, computer science, as
well as instructors in a wide range of domains.
Enrollment
To start the enrollment process, please complete this form
<https://learnlab.org/index.php/e-learning-theory-course-registration/>.
We’ll get back to you to complete the enrollment.
Please start this process early. It will take 3-4 days to complete your
registration.
Important Dates
- The deadline for enrolling is May 19, 2020.
- Office hours are May 19 through August 7, Tuesday and Thursdays,
9-10:20 am EST
For More Information
Please address inquiries to Michael Bett, LearnLab Managing Director, email
<mbett@xxxxxxxxxx> or Ken Koedinger, LearnLab Director and course
instructor, email <koedinger@xxxxxxx>