Please note that this is a real scenario. The College of Education at Coastal Carolina University has recently contracted with Horry County Schools to offer professional development courses to inservice teachers. One of those courses (EDUC 531) is an introduction to educational technologies, designed to improve learner technical skills in essential software applications. A second general goal for the course is to facilitate teacher integration of technology skills into the curriculum.

The problem is that these two goals are not aligned well in the course as it is presently designed. Students complete a spreadsheet tutorial first, for example, where they master basic technical skills, and only later examine how spreadsheet technology can be used to enrich curricular activities. There is a disconnect, then, between skills and context. Students develop the skills in a highly contrived environment that I suspect is much less motivating.

Given what we now know about effective learning environments based on constructivist, situativity, cognitive flexibility, activity, and other modern learning theories, can we redesign a module from the EDUC 531 course website accordingly?

You will assume the role of an Educational Technology consultant for this assignment. You will work in small teams to redesign the ultimate EDUC 531 web-based learning aid on Presentation technologies (especially Powerpoint). You will produce a deliverable to illustrate your proposed design--a detailed storyboard that identifies the necessary instructional strategies and learning objects. You will not have to design the user interface, just the content and methods of instruction.

Assume that you have already conducted the initial front-end analyses and even written the desired performance objectives. I have posted that information in steps (2) and (3) above. Follow the guidelines that I suggest in step (4) to complete the design and create your storyboard.