ETEC 510
Design Project Proposal
Due: February 5
Here are some questions that might help you discuss and author your proposal:
1. Key Frameworks
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What is the focus of your design project?
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How are you situating your design activities in the academic literature?
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What/Whose ideas about learning and learning environments are relevant?
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What/Whose theoretical insights and perspectives frame your thinking about the particular group of
learners your project targets?
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How are you framing the primary educational activities?
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How are you framing the use of educational media?
(approx. 2 pages/approx. 600 words)
2. Intentions and Positions
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What do you intend to accomplish by means of this design?
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What does scholarship in Education have to say about placing value on this particular cluster of
goals?
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What might be a counter-argument to placing value on this particular set of outcomes?
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How do the stated goals of your project fit, or not, with larger sets of goals (e.g., globalization, a
School District position paper, and so on…)?
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What is the predominant technology that you will use?
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Why this technology?
(approx. 3 pages/approx. 900 words)
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3. Key Concepts and Contexts –
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What is the knowledge (both conceptual “know that”, and procedural “know how”, that is the focus
of your design project?
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What academic scholarship is relevant to thinking about this particular knowledge focus?
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What is the context for your design project?
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What academic scholarship is relevant to thinking about this particular context?
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Who are the learners who will be the target of the learning experience you are planning?
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What are the relevant academic literatures that address the kinds of learners your design targets?
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What are the most important perspectives on the group of learners your design targets?
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What are the points of contention in the academic literature regarding this group of learners, and
kinds of educational design?
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What is your position regarding these discussions of point of view regarding this group of learners?
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How will this affect the design?
(approx. 2 pages/approx. 600 words)
4. InterActivities –
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What kinds of dynamic objects will you create for carrying out your designs in a specific context?
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The possibilities are endless, and include: website, podcast, animation, simulation, game, unit plan,
layout for media lab, workshop plan and activities etc…
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What are the main steps you need to take to produce the materials that will support InterActivity?
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How will the /objects/learning materials be produced?
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It will also be important for your group to think about how you will submit your dynamic objects for
evaluation. Will you need a website, a course shell in a learning management system (like WebCT or
Moodle), a wiki space, etc.? It will be important for your group to work out with your instructor – ahead of
time – what your specific needs are for your project so that you instructor can assist your group. In past
offerings of ETEC510, students have drawn upon their own resources at their local institutions as well as
those at UBC in order to complete their project work.
(Page length isn’t the right metric for this section, where the deliverable could take the form of one or more
website pages, modules for an online course, images, Flash animations, unit plans, podcasts, and so on…)
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