| Situation
Features |
Pros
(+) and Cons (-) |
| (1) Each student interviews a
designer and a Web report |
+ Acquaint the students with educational designers
+ Survey and understand various different design methods and techniques
employed by the professionals
+ Explore how design methods relate to learning theories
+ Learn from their experience
+ Practice interviewing skills
+ Building contacts with professional designers
+ Learn/ polish basic web developing skills- difficulties in finding/
contacting/ fixing appointment with an appropriate candidate
- The design approach employed by the designers might not fall within
the documented design methods
- Difficult to gather all require information in an interview
- Lack of interviewing skills
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| (2) Small Group project on design methods |
+ Understand different forms of design knowledge
and design methods from the abstract readings
+ Link abstract ideas about design methods to concrete examples found
in the designer interviews
+ Understand the design method by applying it to design the Website
|
Class site that combines
(1) and (2) |
+ Develop a framework that synthesizes (1) and
(2)
+ Develop organizational skills to allow
completion of a large-scale design project with many team members
- Difficulties in coordinating the tasks, work distribution
- Difficult to maintain a consistent look and feel by combining individual
works from (1) & (2)
- Time issues for the completion of the project
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