Designing Effective Instructional Strategies for Online Courses

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Designing Effective Instructional Strategies for
Online Courses

• Feng-Qi Lai, Ph.D.
• eslai_at_isugw.indstate.edu
• [phone]
• Cheryl A. Dugas
• David R. Hofmeister, Ed.D.
• Department of Curriculum, Instruction, Media
  Technology
• Indiana State University, USA

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Overview

• A pilot study with an online course in
  Instructional Design
• Students prior experiences with online course
  instructional strategies
• Strategies used in this course
• End-of-course survey survey results
• Summary future research

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Students prior experiences with online course
instructional strategies
Strategies Example Imagery Concept Mapping Frames Advance Organizer Analogy Chunking
Frequency 10 3 1 3 2 2 3
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Strategies used in this course

• Strategy 1 Pre-Instruction
• Strategy 2 Project Examples
• Strategy 3 Professional Critique
• Strategy 4 Self-Evaluation Rubrics
• Strategy 5 Project Pre-Review
• Strategy 6 Teaming-Up Activities

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End-of-course survey
Instructional Strategy 5 4 3 2 1
Pre-instruction
Project Examples
Professional Critique
Self-Evaluation Rubrics
Project Pre-view
Teaming-up Activities
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End-of-course survey

• Please explain why you check the strategies as
  effective or not effective
• Pre-instruction
• Project Examples
• Professional Critique
• Self-Evaluation Rubrics
• Project Pre-view
• Teaming-up Activities

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End-of-course survey

• Which strategy do you think is the most helpful?
  Please put the strategies in the order from most
  helpful to least helpful by numbering them using
  1 to 6, where 1 stands for most helpful (1st
  place) and 6 for least helpful (6th place).
• __ Pre-instruction
• __ Project Examples
• __ Professional Critique
• __ Self-Evaluation Rubrics
• __ Project Pre-view
• __ Teaming-up Activities

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Survey Results
Strategy Frequency by effectiveness rating Frequency by effectiveness rating Frequency by effectiveness rating Frequency by effectiveness rating Frequency by effectiveness rating Frequency by effectiveness rating Mean
Strategy 5 4 3 2 1 n/a Mean
Pre-instruction 4 7 2 0 0 0 4.2
Project Examples 10 3 0 0 0 0 4.8
Professional Critique 3 6 3 1 0 0 3.8
Self-Evaluation Rubrics 2 6 4 1 0 0 3.7
Project Pre-Review 5 4 3 0 0 1 4.2
Teaming-up Activities 4 6 3 0 0 0 4.1
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Survey Results
Strategy Frequency - rank order of helpfulness Frequency - rank order of helpfulness Frequency - rank order of helpfulness Frequency - rank order of helpfulness Frequency - rank order of helpfulness Frequency - rank order of helpfulness Rank of Helpfulness
Strategy 1 2 3 4 5 6 Rank of Helpfulness
Pre-instruction 2 2 5 2 1 1 2
Project Examples 11 2 0 0 0 0 1
Professional Critique 0 2 2 2 2 5 5
Self-Evaluation Rubrics 0 1 1 2 6 3 6
Project Pre-Review 1 2 3 5 0 2 3
Teaming-up Activities 0 3 2 2 4 2 4
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Questions Answers
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