OTL 682 - Designing and Implementing User Interfaces for Online Instruction

Units: 3
Use principles of user interface, audience analysis, discourse communities and educational psychology to design online educational sites for teachers, learners and the global community. Use colors, images, animations, and interactivity to facilitate communication with online students. Accessibility issues stressed.

Prerequisites: All of: OTL 601, OTL 602, OTL 603, OTL 604.
Co-requisites: OTL 606.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely Online.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

1. Conduct a usability review.

2. Apply the psychology of information chunking

3. Discover and examine how to make mobile learning work in the online environment

4. Experiment with conversion to a mobile interface (Mlearning)

5. Design user testing and reiterative user testing

6. Identify the relationship between metaphors and user interfaces

7. Analyze the experience, motivation, skills and educational needs of learners who will participate in the course