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Session 12
Session 12 continues into
Session 18
Title:
Simulating a real life situation
through an online course. From design to implementation.
Session
Description:
According to learning theories,
the teaching context should resemble as closely as possible the
real situation in which the knowledge to be acquired will be
used. To achieve this, the metaphor technique is suggested.
Using metaphor, a course is designed around a scenario that
simulates the essential aspects of the situation in context. For
example, learners in a publicity course could be immersed in the
context of an advertising agency and act as the head of
marketing. The entire course would then be built around the
metaphor of an advertising agency and would recreate its
operations, its requirements, etc.
But is a metaphor always
appropriate in education? In this presentation, an example will
be given of the use of a metaphor in an online course in
relation to the design process, the writing of the courseware,
the implementation and the student’s education path. An
explanation will be given of how QuickTime VR technology can be
used to create new look virtual interfaces quickly and easily,
which can in turn be easily integrated in a Web site using only
HTML tags and a few JavaScript lines.
An attempt will be made to
answer various questions such as the following: What is the
educational function of a metaphor? How is the subject matter
integrated? How are evaluations designed? What are the
challenges in the design process? What role will the instructor
have? What is the experience of the learner? How can simple
technologies be used to create a dynamic virtual environment?
Presenters:
Carolle Roy, Lynn Arbez Penner, Jean Vouillon
Carolle Roy
Instructional designer at the Collège universitaire de
Saint-Boniface (CUSB), Carolle Roy was in charge of the CUSB’s
Internet Communications Services from 1998 to 2007. Her duties
included the coordination and standardization of the activities
and pages of the official CUSB website, as well as the
development and implementation of Internet courses.
Carolle Roy holds a Master’s degree in Sociology, a postgraduate
diploma in Development of Multimedia Distance Education Training
a postgraduate program in Information Technologies and Learning
Environments at Téluq.
Lynn Arbez Penner
Lynn Arbez Penner has been a professor at Collège Universitaire
de Saint-Boniface since 1998 in both the faculty of
Administrative Studies and the technical college, École
Technique et Professionnelle. Since 2007, she has been involved
in the development of on-line courses in the Advanced Diploma in
leadership for Early Childhood Education.
Lynn Arbez Penner holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from
the University of Manitoba, a Bachelor of Education from CUSB,
and a Master of Education from the University of Manitoba. She
is also a practising Certified Management Accountant.
Jean Vouillon
After completing his Master’s in Image Art and Technology (Art
et Technologies de l’Image) at the University of Paris VIII,
Jean Vouillon worked for eight years as an independent
multimedia developer and 3D illustrator. Among his clients were
the French space agency (CNES), the publishing house Flammarion,
and the lottery corporation La Française des Jeux.
During the same period, he gave many training sessions on the
principal online and offline multimedia creation software for
professional development organizations in Paris and Marseilles.
For six years now, he has been teaching in the Multimedia
Communication program at Winnipeg’s Collège universitaire de
Saint-Boniface, particularly the use of software such as
Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Flash and
Director.
Recently he designed 2 courses in animation and design as part
of the Webmaster program offered online through the partnership
between the Community College of New Brunswick (CCNB) at Dieppe,
the Cité Collégiale in Ottawa and the Collège universitaire de
Saint-Boniface.
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