Assalamualaikum and good day people!
This week, we discussed about differences between courseware and web-based application.
Courseware is educational material intended as kits for teachers or trainers or as tutorials for students, usually packaged for use with a computer. Courseware can encompass any knowledge area, but information technology subjects are most common.
The CD-ROM is the most common means of delivering courseware that is not offered online. For teachers and trainers, courseware content may include set-up information, a course plan, teaching notes, and exercises.
Web-based is just another mean of courseware; it is ONLINE!
Courseware can be a parable of a flowchart; it has START to END. In website, there is no start nor end. You can start anywhere you want, stop wherever you like.
After that, Dr. Dayana lead the discussion to information design and learning strategy; both of which really important in our web-based project.
She exposed to us various kinds of learning strategy and how each of them functioning.
Dr. Dayana also elaborate on information design and what we should consider when making decision. All of it were taken to note.
One new vocabulary we learned today is Authentic Learning;
Authentic learning is real life learning. It is a style of learning that encourages students to create a tangible, useful product to be shared with their world. Once an educator provides a motivational challenge, they nurture and provide the necessary criteria, planning, timelines, resources and support to accommodate student success. The teacher becomes a guide on the side or a project manager, a facilitator not a dictator. Processes become the predominant force and the content collected is organized appropriately into portfolios.
Assalamualaikum
