eLearning and “Scooby-Doo! Where are you?”
I really enjoyed watching Scooby-Doo as a kid. The original theme song was, of course, the best…”Scooby, Scooby-Doo, where are you? You’ve got some work to do now.” As my Technology Tools to Support Learning course finishes up their self-paced interactive learning modules, I was thinking, “Where are you…in your thinking about elearning and self-paced instruction?” To take you back, though, here’s the video:
For many of us, the past couple of weeks has been an introduction to elearning and many of the students in my course are beginning instructional designers. So, I am hoping that their thinking has evolved over the time we’ve been discussing elearning. For the module they have been producing in Powerpoint, we have been following quite of bit of the suggestions and guidelines from Tom Kuhlmann at Articulate. Certainly one of the points that Tom emphasizes in his posts is making content necessary and meaningful for the learning, such as through scenarios, choices, and consequences.
We’ve also discussed many of the points that Steve Alessi and Stan Trollip identify as essential features for computer-based instruction, or tutorials. These include:
- Introduction
- Presenting new information
- Questioning
- Judging responses
- Feedback
- Learner control
- Closing/Exiting
In addition, we have discussed terms, such as page turners, and in another post some folks have considered what tools really contribute purposefully to the creation of learning content for this year and into the next.
So where is your thinking now about elearning? What have you learned and what do you still need to learn? What’s still a little fuzzy for you? Where are you?
