LeeAnna's+Course+Description+and+Analysis

LeeAnna's Course Description and Analysis

Module 1:

LeeAnna Kobayashi's MS Access 2007 course description and analysis:
Course Website: http://www.gcflearnfree.org/access2007

LeeAnna, Here's my critique: [|ETEC 750B Critique1 LeeAnna.doc]

Module 2:

1/22/2012 LeeAnna's Review of the Instructional Strategy used by GCF LearnFree.org MS Access 2007 Tutorial: 1/23 Youxin's critique for LeeAnna's course Instructional Strategy analysis: According to LeeAnna's description, it seemed that this online course is lacking what-happen skill. From my perspective, the component of what-happen plays an important role in the process of learning whatever the field, especially dealing with the database. The good thing of this online course is that it offers some video presentation to guide the learner a step at a time on how to operate those data sets, how to transform the data, how to export the data, etc. Through learning this online course, it is practical to use it in our daily life, work and academic study. The suggestion of the course for me up till now is that the instructional designer could add more audio presentation rather than PPT slideshow because too much slideshows and word descriptions without vocal materials made the course boring, and the learner will get frustrated easily if they would like to take more time on this course.

**Sean’s Critique of LeeAnna’s Instructional Strategy Analysis**
The table provides a clear graphic way of analyzing the current state of a course. The color-coding shows up directly what is in place and what needs to be done. According to this analysis, the course, which I have not seen, but can visualize, lacks two fundamental components, the Ask and the Do. As such, it is very much a Tell and Show, which makes me think it is not very interactive; it looks like the instructional methods are all one way, from teacher to student. Definitely, each of these missing components has to be added in.

Module 3:

[|mdavidmerrill] Jan 31, 2012 8:40 am
====You have identified the component skill required but have not identified a whole problem. The challenge is to identify a real-world problem that can be solved using Access. Access is a tool not a problem. Therefore the skills to use Access are component skills required to solve some data base problem. What is an example of a data base problem? How can Access be used to create a data base for this problem?====

====LeeAnna's response to feedback: Based on this feedback I will revise my review to say an example of a real-world problem could be this: You are a PhD candidate working on collecting data before writing your dissertation. You need a way to store the data so that it is organized and can be exported and then analyzed. The problem you will need to solve is to use MS Access to build the database using various field types including yes/no, likert scale, text, memo, and date/time. How will you go about creating your database? What steps should you take? This is an example of a real-world problem that is easily solved by using MS Access. ====

Module 4:

Hi Leanna Can you give an example of how multimedia was used to effectively implement an instructional event? your analysis seems a bit superficial. A bit more "show me" would help. ||
 * || [|mdavidmerrill] Feb 7, 2012 11:17 am

yes trying to think of specifically how you might incorporate mm into this course will help you apply some of the things we're learning about using mm effectively ||
 * || [|aexoxo] Feb 7, 2012 1:20 pm

LeeAnna's Response to feedback:

Sean’s Comments for LeeAnna Module 4:

The additional comments gave a user sense of the course and gave me the sense that the multimedia aspect was reasonably well-designed. The idea of having a simulation is interesting. I would imagine that the implementation could be fraught with difficulty. Mainly, how could the ramifications of a database all be shown on a single screen. A small database might be OK; but I would guess that the big ones are where the learning would be the most important.

Module 5: This is what I have so far for Module 5. Module 6: Module 7: This is a simple slideshow using triggers and animations. Please let me know how I can improve it. Thank you. Module 8: Module 9: Module 10:

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