CEIT 317
Instructional Technology and
Material Development
Associate Prof. Dr. Kürşat Çağıltay
Head coach/facilitator
kursat@metu.edu.tr
Tel: 2103683
http://www.metu.edu.tr/~kursat
Other coaches / facilitators
 Esra Yecan
yecan@metu.edu.tr
 Türkan Karakuş
karakus@metu.edu.tr
 Yavuz İnal
yinal@metu.edu.tr
 Engin Kurşun
ekursun@metu.edu.tr
Intro
 Fill the background forms
 About this course
– What this course is about (being active)
– Like a basketball game
– And what is not (being passive)
 Projects
 Assessment: No MidTerm or Final exam… 
 Random Project Groups 
 No full 3 hours lectures. Generally Lecture +
Facilitation meetings with coaches/facilitators
Course Web Site and e-List
courses.ceit.metu.edu.tr/ceit317
ceit317@metu.edu.tr
Project Groups
 In real life projects, you can’t pick your
group members. You have to learn how to
work with strangers. Develop conflict
resolution strategies
 Therefore, we will assign project groups
randomly
 Exception: If you really hate someone,
report his/her name to yecan@metu.edu.tr
today (up to three names).
Projects
 Project-1
– Concept learning
– Medium: Flash
– ~7-8 weeks
– Collaborate with Elementary Science Education (ESE)
Department Students
 Project-2
– Procedure Learning
– Media: 5 minutes video + Paper materials
– ~7-8 weeks
Your First Project
 A real life like problem
 Teaching a concept
 A Flash based project
 You will work together with Elementary
Science Education Department students
 ESE students will be your subject matter
experts
 You will be the developers
Sample Projects from 2006
 Basit Makinalar
 Basınç
What to do?
 Find your group members from CEIT (We will announce
the teams tomorrow morning – If you do not want to work
with someone, report us)
 Meet with your project partner from Elementary Science
Education
 Write a group contract with them
 A group contract includes
– Responsibilities
– General work ethics
– Conflict resolution
 Discuss it with your facilitator, sign it and turn-in
 Due date: next week Monday, October 1st
Grading
 You cannot pass this course until you get
60% (9 point out of 15) of lab grades.
 Project-1: 40 pts
 Project-2: 45 pts
Attendance
 You will be responsible everything that I
mentioned in the class.
 Some weeks I will give Pop-Quizzes to check
whether you read the necessary materials or not!
 Attendance IS required for group meetings with
your facilitator and labs (will be graded)
 If you want to talk to your friends, make jokes or
if you are sleepy, please DO NOT come to class.
Cell phones and being late
 Please turn-off your cell-phones before
coming to the classroom (if you have an
emergency, let me know in advance).
 You will loose 1% of your total grade for
each phone ring.
 Class starts at 10:40, do not be late,
 There will be no break
Be aware!
 Meet with your team’s facilitator every
week with your team (Required).
 Turn-in assignments on time (otherwise you
will loose points – 10% per day)
 Check your e-mail frequently
 Visit course schedule page and make
readings
Let me Repeat Again!
 Meet with your project partners from
Elementary Science Education Department,
 Ask them the project topic (a concept) for
your project-1 ASAP
 Write a group contract
 Create a yahoogroup for the communication
of your group, add your facilitator to the
group
– Rule: Every week we want to see activity in the
electronic communication list
Unpleasant Topic
 Cheating
 If you cheat you will get FF
– Copying sentences from previous years’ reports
– Copying parts from your friends’ reports
Bonus – Community work
 If you work for ILKYAR, you will earn 5%
bonus
 http://www.ilkyar.org.tr/
Questions? Comments?
How to make a 317 project
 A video from pevious year’s students
Instructional Technology
and Material Development
Assoc.Prof. Dr.
Kürşat Çağıltay
Instructional Technology and Material Development
First, What is Technology?
 Greek: “Technos” or
Know-how
 A Device or a Method
 Electronic or Mechanical
Instructional Technology?
 "Instructional Technology is the theory and
practice of design, development, utilization,
management and evaluation of processes
and resources for learning.” (Seels & Ritchey,
1994)
 Theory and Practice
 Design, Development, Utilization,
Management and Evaluation
 Processes and Resources for Learning
Instructional Media
 From Latin that means
“between”
 Any channel that
carries the information
between source and
receiver
 Most of the time
media are tangible
(physical, real)
Why Instructional Technology?
 Enhancement of Learning
So in this class your job is
Creating better learning
environments by using technology
How will we do it?
Like this?
Or like this?
How about this....
This requires a lot of Planning and
Documentation
If you do not follow a methodology..
Projects need Project Management:
Why?
 According to KALDER’s (Kalite Dernegi)
report
– ülkemizde yazılım projelerinin profesyonel
bir şekilde planlanıp yönetilmediği ortaya
çıkıyor.
– Proje yönetimi çok zayıf ve yönetim
yeterince araç desteği ile yapılmıyor, ölçme
yok, iş akış yok, yönetim zaafları var
Project Management
 süreç yaklaşımı yok.
 Genellikle hiç bir standard temel alınmıyor.
 standartlaşma ve evrensel metodların
kullanımı gerekli
So,
 In this class we will learn how to create
instructional materials by following
scientific approach
Questions and Comments