Elizabeth McAlister

Tag: Canva

  • Elective Course – Group Project elements

    For an elective course taken early 2021, I worked with three other classmates to create a module aimed at Professional Development for School of Education faculty. It could be done using Articulate 360, Rise 360, etc., but had to be housed in and feed analytics into Canvas. We opted to do ours using only tools we knew were available to UAB faculty (Articulate is not). Our goal was to not only provide professional development, but also to show the faculty what Canvas is capable of. 

    Our team did a module covering chapters 10-12 of our text: Clark, R. C., & Mayer, R. E. (2016). E-learning and the science of instruction: proven guidelines for consumers and designers of multimedia learning. Wiley. Part of my contribution to the initial analysis phase was the goal analysis. We worked together to decide on goals and instructional material. I was also responsible for creating the graphic introducing each section, used Canva to create them. and UAB’s branding site guidelines for colors.

    chart outlining process of analysing learning goals
    Goal Analysis

    Applying the Segmenting and Pretraining Principles: Managing Complexity by Breaking a Lesson into Parts:

    Explains Segmenting and Pre-Training Principles, Managing complexity. Segmenting: Essential Overload caused by too much interrelated information coming in at one time. Break a complex lesson into bite-size segments (1-2 major steps). This allows the learner to focus on relevant information, that is, essential processing. Pre-Training: Essential Overload caused by too much unfamiliar information. Identifying key concepts before getting into the lesson allows the learner to focus on the overall concept (essential processing).

    Engagement in eLearning:

    Image showing 5 principles of Engagement in e-Learning. Focus on relevant material. Mentally organize it into a clear concept. Integrate it with relevant prior knowledge. Doing does not necessarily lead to learning (Behavioral Engagement). Promote appropriate cognitive processing (Psychological Engagement).

    Leveraging Examples in eLearning:

    Image showing 6 principles to effectively use examples to promote learning.

  • Elective Course – Individual Projects (Article Review, Informative Comic, Infographic)

    In an elective course taken early 2021, we were assigned to do three individual challenges (the course itself was primarily group work). The three I chose were an article review, creation of a comic strip explaining a concept from our textbook, and creation of an infographic explaining a concept from our textbook.

    Course Text: Clark, R. C., & Mayer, R. E. (2016). E-learning and the science of instruction: proven guidelines for consumers and designers of multimedia learning. Wiley.

    Article Review

    Review an article from a professional, peer-reviewed, research oriented journal. Include a summary of the article, the value I felt it brought to the profession, the contribution I feel this made to my understanding of the subject matter, and ideas for new research generated from the article. I was actually disappointed with this article, but didn’t have time to find a new one. Besides, not everything can get two thumbs up.

    pdf available upon request

    Informative Comic Strip

    Create an informative comic strip expressing application of the content matter we have been covering.

    I decided to do a strip regarding the concept of the Segmenting Principle. available upon request

    Infographic

    Take the information you have learned and create an Infographic. I chose to do mine on a chapter from our text covering how people learn which, as it turns out, is essentially an overview of Mayer’s Principles of Multimedia Learning. available upon request