Week 8 - Peer Reviews and how to Improve on your Design

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 Prompt: What feedback have you received and what have you done as a result? Why? Given that many standard corporate ID projects last about 3 weeks and this is week 8 of the session, how do you feel about working on a professional timeline?

Here is some of the feedback I have received and what I plan to do as a result to the specific feedback.  

Feedback: Adding additional multimedia content to help flow of modules

Response: Planning on adding some videos and more graphic/picture elements once all the basic content it up. 

Feedback: Will the course include a discussion component. 

Response: Planning on putting a module discussion boards in each overview for the students to have a place to ask each other questions.  

Feedback: Some questions over timelines and how to self regulate the pace of the students.  

Response: Will include a more detailed timeline of the course in the syllabus and add a suggested timeline in each overview.  

Most of the feedback was a lot of how to make the course more accessible and easier to use.  Including things like suggested timelines and video how to’s are a great idea that I will add once the content is up and ready to go.  

My process for the design so far has been to get as much of the content as I can done, and then go back and make the content better and easier to use.  It’s working my way back, making sure the main topics are covered and I have successfully achieved the goals of the course, and then iterating back trough it all and making it look better and flow nicer.  It’s because I am working like this that this type of feedback is perfect.  I am able to put it on a list of things I want to do and then go back and do them once I have the time.  

I think this way of doing things will serve me well in a corporate ID project as well.  Going through the first few phases of design and getting a design that may not be the most efficient design, but one that works, makes sure you have completed the job you were tasked to do.  Then with the given time, go back and make it even better.  There is always a way to make things better in education.  You always have the ability to reach more kids, scaffold better, make things more personal for the learner, so giving yourself as much time to do that is ideal.  The downside of that is you HAVE to have the whole course finished before you can submit your work.  Therefore it’s a benefit to have the base layer, where everything is there, even if it’s not yet in a fantastic presentation, and the go back through it and make it better.  

I have done this process for almost all of my classes I have taught in the past, and each year the lessons get better and better because of it.  That’s why it’s important to have the evaluation portion at the end of the course as well.  Give’s you a chance to get feedback and improve.  

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