Working as a 'produser' and using social media in instructional design
I designed and developed a lesson this week for the produsage assignment. The topic was teacher burnout and organized in an online learning platform, Sutori. Looking back at the process, there were several points to consider as an instructional designer. Firstly, alignment with learning objectives is important regardless of learning environments. Sutori provides a feature to connect various formats on the same page so that you can use almost every format related to the learning contents. If I did not focus on the learning objectives, the instruction could have been overloaded occurring learners' extraneous cognitive load. Second, social media usage considering characteristics of Web 2.0 is an opportunity to make the instruction more vibrant. One of the main characteristics of Web 2.0 is interconnectivity with users in the online environment. Depending on the learning objectives, instructional designers create active activities using social media. However, I learned that instruc...