Instructional Design Resources
The CITT is available to assist faculty and departments with developing components, courses, or full programs.
- Online tutorials
- Tools & Techniques Toolbox
- One-on-one instructional design assistance: Contact jksmith@ufl.edu
- Custom workshops for your department or group: Contact jksmith@ufl.edu
- General Instructional Design Resources
- Faculty Lab: Computers with specialized software and equipment are available for faculty use at 2215 Turlington Hall.
Online Course Samples
Online materials are as varied as the faculty who use them. Projects can vary in size and cost from a single module developed for less than $1,500 to courses with full multimedia and video.
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This project is intended to increase the organization of the course homepage and syllabus as well as to use active learning to teach APA style.
Components:
- Homepage with links to take students to the course content Course Syllabus that will display with a menu to take students to different topics.
- Interactive decision tree to introduce students to APA writing style.
- The Homepage and Course Syllabus were created as .html web pages.
- The pages were put into e-Learning in Blackboard (and are currently being copied over to Sakai where they will be fully functional.)
- Upon making an incorrect choice, students receive feedback and may make another choice.
Project Cost: $1,292.
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This is a large enrollment course that is offered online not only to provide flexibility for the students taking the course, but to make use of web tools to increase student engagement. The instructor wants the students to spend a significant amount of time reflecting on the course material and presenting their own views.
Components:
- Create lectures that use the “picture in a picture” feature of Camtasia Studio. Students see PowerPoint slides with a small inset video of the instructor. This software allows the instructor to record a lecture in his office using a webcam.
- Create quizzes to test the students on lectures.
- This department requires exams to be proctored. Local students take the scantron exams in a physical classroom proctored by graduate students. Distant students must set up (and pay for) remote proctoring.
- Create activities that engage the students in the course material. For example: students track their personal nutrition through the USDA MyPyramid Tracker.
- Organize the content for each module on a single .html page
- Provide an index page with links to all course modules.
- Develop a handbook that details all course requirements and policies with links to the relevant information.
- Students ask questions through Facebook.
The instructor wanted to be able to create his own video lectures at his convenience. The department has provided video storage space and the Camtasia Studio (this is different from Camtasia Relay) software. With complete access to his video content, he can accommodate the changes in the field.
Project cost: $5,900.
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This is a large enrollment course with 900 students registered during the fall term. The course is currently offered online with PowerPoint slides and the interactive materials available through the publisher website. The instructor wanted to create a more engaging course as well as to clarify and organize the course material and policies to make management easier.
Components:
- Create video lectures on the course content using Mediasite: View Mediasite. These lectures are intended give the instructor an online "personality" (note Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses)
- Create videos showing problems being worked using Camtasia Relay: (link to come)
- Provide links to supplementary video from YouTube.
- Provide links to interactive practice exams created by the Teaching Center.
- Organize the content for each module on a single .html page
- Provide an index page with links to all course modules.
- Develop a handbook that details all course requirements and policies with links to the relevant information.
- Create a general “Course Questions” discussion board.
- Set up a computer lab where students can get face-to-face as well as online help.
The general course material videos were created using the CITT Mediasite studio. The instructor used a graphics tablet and Camtasia Relay (available through Video Services) to record problems being worked.
Chemistry peer mentors staff the Chemistry Learning Center. The course instructor visited UF surplus for computers to equip the space. The instructor hopes to get sufficient funding for updated machines as well as graphics tables to allow online tutoring using the desktop sharing features of Skype.
Project Cost: Project is currently underway, estimated cost is $12,000 not including computer lab equipment.
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This course is intended to give students an introduction to what goes into the creation of visual art, music, theatre, and dance. Students learn to make their own creative choices by learning the processes involved in each of the art forms.
Components:
- Videos detail the creative processes behind each art form. These include interviews with artists as well as rehearsals and presentations on the artists’ work.
- Students use the Google Docs presentation tool to showcase the projects they create for each art form.
- Peer review is a critical element of this class. Students are required to review each other’s work and provide substantive support for each critique.
- Provide synchronous and asynchronous tutorials for UF students via cable, video streaming, and podcasting.
- As part of this course, students view and critique live works of art.
- Organize the content for each module on .html pages.
- Provide an index page with links to all course modules.
- Develop a handbook that details all course requirements and policies with links to the relevant information.
- Create a general “Course Questions” discussion board.
- Some of the video footage was shot with the Flip Mino video camera. This allowed the instructor and students to easily get backstage footage.
Project Cost: $20,000.
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