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Instructional Technology Plan
Develop an instructional technology plan of training course of "OSHA requirements for blood borne pathogens" for for school employees. The course will be administered on-line as an asynchronous course that is self-paced and it will use Flash for animations, PowerPoint for slides, Dreamweaver as a web site platform, and Lectora to integrate these programs and for the evaluation and testing
The plan should include:
1. A description of the selected learning environment and the population of learners.
2. Accessibility issues such as geographic location (i.e., dispersion of students)
3. Infrastructure to support the technology (e.g., administrative, help desk, etc.).
4. Technological constraints that could affect access (e.g., bandwidth issues, hardware/software limitations, cost, etc.).
5. Instructional issues including learning objectives, interactivity, student assessment, complexity of content, rate of content change, etc.
6. Evaluation of instructional media mix. Describe "Flash for anamations, PowerPoint for slides, Dreamweaver as a web site platform, and Lectora to integrate these programs and for the evaluation and testing" that are used to support the organization's instructional technology plan based on the criteria.
Instructional Technology Plan
1. Your problem stated that the presentation would be a required OSHA blood-borne pathogens course for all school employees. This is a "true-to-life" scenario because every school employee is required to review the information once a year. Usually, the presentation is given in a meeting format for new employees. Returning employees often just read the manual and sign the form once a year. Having an on-line course would be very valuable.
If you are working for a school district right now, go to your district's website and find information about the number of employees working this year. You need to include principals, secretaries, nurses, teachers, educational assistants, substitute teachers, custodians, cooks, and district office workers. If you are not working in a school right now, go to the U.S. Department of Education, choose a website for a district that appeals to you and find out how many employees work for that district. The U.S. Department of Education website address with links to school districts is:
http://www.ed.gov/parents/schools/find/edpicks.jhtml?src=sm
2. You need to plan where your students (employees of a school district) will access the on-line class. In the school districts where I live, each classroom has a computer for teacher's use. Educational assistants often have their own computers. Even custodians have their own computers. There is often a computer for staff members to use in the teacher's lounge. School libraries have intranet friendly or internet friendly computers systems. Some schools have computer labs that are tied in to the school network and internet. My personal choice would be to have the course on the internet with special passwords for staff because the staff members could access the course from school or at home.
3. The district instructional technology supervisor would probably be the main contact person for the district if employees are having trouble with the module. . I like training modules that have a lot of the questions answered in the "help" section of the program. It helps to have internet links to sites where the OSHA requirements are published. It is convenient to have an e-mail address to one or two people that are available to help with technical problems right away. In some districts, every school has a technology "mentor" to help teachers with computer problems. It would be wise to train the "mentors" to use the module and to do basic troubleshooting.
An example of information that used by Currituck County schools is listed at:
http://currituck.k12.nc.us/documents/bbpathogens.ccs.doc . If you do a web search of "OSHA blood-borne pathogen training for schools" you can find quite a bit of information to use in an on-line training module.
There is an example of a Power Point presentation at:
http://www.uncg.edu/nur/resources/facres/osha/OSHA_Jayne_lutz.ppt .
4. Most networks at schools have a very fast connection, so on-line modules should load quickly. The only time the bandwidth would be an issue is if the learner had a "dial-up" connection that he/she was using from home. Any training module would have to match the bandwidth of the network that the employees are using.
Software issues may be a problem. It is not uncommon for a school to have older computers with older operating systems or hardware that affect performance. A program developer would need to write the program to be useful to the widest range of computer operating systems possible. A survey of each school would be valuable to see if there are enough computers available to staff members that are capable of running the software.
Other cost factors include paying for the services of a development team and purchasing software such as Lectora for the team members to use.
I have attached an article about Instructional Design that may help.
5. The article that I have attached has a great outline of how to plan and produce a on-line learning module.
The Macromedia website has a great description of "flash" technology.
http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/flashpro/productinfo/features/ . Using video of proper procedures for cleaning up blood spills, properly disposing of "sharps" or other items in the training would be very helpful.
This website discusses using Power Point in the classroom. Many of the features are explained. http://www.actden.com/pp/
The following website discusses Dreamweaver 8:
http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/productinfo/features/
There is a very thorough explanation of the Lectora features at this website:
http://trivantis.com/demosignup/
When choosing software and special features for an on-line module, expense, ease of use, and the ability of the development team to use the software are all factors. Are the learners capable of using the technology with minimal training and experience in computer technology? Can the software be used to evaluate student performance? Can the module be used for several years with minimal changes?