Designing Online Learning with Flash.pdf

About This Book

Why is this topic important?

Education in all realms is being transformed by online learning. Online learning breaks down

barriers of distance and time and has proven to be an effective method for instruction. How-

ever, online learning has largely been limited to methods that require enormous investments

of instructor time. In other words, instructor-centric online learning methods do not scale

well and, so far, gains in efﬁ ciency have been limited. However, tools, such as Adobe Flash™

allow you to develop online learning instruction that interacts with the learner and can

reduce the burden on online instructors. The key to taking advantage of this tool is to a apply

a set of instructional design strategies designed speciﬁ cally for online learning with Flash, and

that is what you will ﬁ nd in this text.

What can the reader achieve with this book?

There are plenty of generic instructional design books on the shelves, and there are plenty of

generic Flash books available. What you will not ﬁ nd is another text like this one, one that

introduces instructional design that is speciﬁ cally designed to be used with Flash. By working

through this text, you will learn about speciﬁ c instructional design strategies for using Flash

to present information to the learner and speciﬁ c strategies for interacting with the learner.

You will also learn the most useful Flash techniques for building this type of online learning.

With the knowledge of the tools and techniques presented in this text, readers will be well on

their way to creating effective online instruction.

How is this book organized?

The book begins with an instructional design model that focuses on planning, presentation

and practice. The importance of each stage of this model being consistent with the others

is stressed. The author next presents a series of instructional strategies that align and are

consistent with the human memory system. The author then applies those strategies to the

learning domains: facts, concepts, principles, and procedures . Once the strategies have been

introduced, the author provides a review of the most useful Flash techniques for online learn-

ing. The book concludes with an example of an instructional application that demonstrates

the selection of appropriate design strategies and Flash techniques. By this method you will

advance your instructional design and Flash skills simultaneously.

Professional instructors can access an Instructor’s Guide and Flash guides (posted online

at www.wiley.com/college/moore), and the general public can access the Flash Guides at

www.wiley.com/go/moore.

Online Learning

with Flash™

DAVID RICHARD MOORE

Designing