How strange it is to produce a document that has been written by nine people. That is my prevailing thought at the end of week four in Team 6 as we have reached a significant milestone in our project: finishing the written instructions that will be given to the French translators. Week four was probably …
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In this week’s lecture in eLearning Theorises and Practices, our professor discussed the Depth Education Model. This lecture was particularly relevant for me because recently, I have been thinking about how instructional designers can ensure that they foster a suitable learning environment for students engaging in the courses they build. In a previous blog post, …
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Week three in Team 6 was busy. On Monday evening the team writers, Eveline and Siobhan shared the first draft of the instructions on how to create a simple survey using Google Forms. From Monday to Wednesday, all of Team 6 reviewed the instructions on Google Docs, making comments and discussing points on the appropriate …
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Last year, I facilitated my first usability test. It was part of a college assignment where I had to choose a product to test, conduct a usability study, and then report on the findings. It was a tough assignment, but I loved the experience, and it was during the literature review that I found the …
Week two in team 6 was productive and exciting. Although we had a slow start due to an assignment deadline on Monday for the University of Limerick students, we gathered momentum mid-week when we assigned tasks to satisfy the requirements of the assignment brief. As I had already been assigned the role of the researcher …
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I first heard of microlearning through a discussion forum in college where a classmate was discussing current trends in eLearning. If you’re like me, and you are new to the world of eLearning, microlearning is a method of breaking learning into small chunks that are objective driven and can be used efficiently and quickly within …
As part of an assignment for a Learning and Collaboration module in my MA, I am working with a virtual team to develop a set of instructions that we will translate into French. We are known as Team 6, and there are nine of us in total comprising of two students from the University of …
During the first week of my reflective learning blog, I have been researching areas in technical communication and eLearning that I would like to investigate in more detail, and out of this research, I have been making plans for what I want to talk about each week in my blog posts. For my first post, …
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