Learner Factors
Analyzing the learners is a means to identify the learner characteristics that will likely impact the process and outcomes of the learning experience.

Factors

Description

Advantage or Constraint

Initial Ideas for Maximizing Positive Factors or Minimizing Negative Factors

Age / Academic Range

23-55

Advantage

Learners are all professionals and realize the importance of the course

Teaching Experience

1yr-20+years

Advantage

All learners will have basic knowledge of webpages.

Skill Level

Intermediate

Advantage

Learners all have basic understanding of webpages.  For the most part all have been using a website to keep parents and students informed.

Sex Distribution

80/20 in favor of Females

Constraint

Learners tend to sit next to friends and talk in class.

Racial, Ethnic Diversity

~1% minority

Should not be an issue.

Educational Level

College Degree most have Masters Degree

Advantage

Learners all have basic knowledge of how tools work in word processing programs.

Disability or Impairment

ADD and OCD

Constraint

Learners may have a hard time focusing on the all the steps.  WE have to make sure that the handouts and vodcasts are very accurate.

Developmentally Appropriate

Yes

Advantage

Prerequisite Knowledge

90% yes

Advantage

Most returning teachers have been using a webpage of some type to disperse information.  With this new site, the ability to create multiple pages and post files will make the learners happy.

Related Experience

Webpage creation

DotNetNuke' s WYSIWYG is easy to work in.

Perception of Role as Student

Excited and Motivated

This new web page allows the learners to develop more advanced sites, and they will finally have the ability to upload files.

Motivation for Learning

Required

Constraint

This is a requirement for all the teachers K-8.  They must all develop at least a contact page.

Attitude Toward Subject

Positive

Advantage

Students will be excited abut selecting their own groups, topics and visual presentation style.

Expectations from Course

Contact page w/ weekly class activities

Advantage

Learners will be shown how to use tables to create the sections on their page for their contact information and weekly plans.

Competitiveness

Very Competitive

Advantage

Learners will be looking at other sties, and trying to emulate those sites.  The expectation is that there will be a lot of cooperative learning involved.

Stage of Integration

Developing

Advantage

Learners all have basic computer skills, and are ready to improve their skills.

Environment Factors
Analyzing the environment is a means to identify the issues that will impact the (a) process of the design and production, (b) implementation, and (c) outcomes of the learning experience.

Factors

Description

Advantage or Constraint

Initial Ideas for Maximizing Positive Factors or Minimizing Negative Factors

Design and Production Factors:

Materials Required

Internet access

Advantage

Learners have access to the internet in classrooms and throughout the building. 

Production Equipment Available

Computer

Advantage

Learners have access to several computers in the building.

Time for Design and Production

2 hour training

Advantage

Learners will have sufficient time to develop their page.

Department Technology Requirements

Setup users;

Handouts & Vodcast

Advantage

These will have all been finished by the time the teachers are introduced to the system.  So the learners will not see any downtime.

Implementation Factors:

Class Size

12 with 1 instructor

20 with 2 instructors

Advantage

This allows the instructor/s to spend individual time with each learner as needed.

Class Period Length

2 hour

Constraint

This will have to be after school time.

Location

Computer Lab

Advantage

Easy to get to and use.

Seating Arrangement

Rows in lab

Advantage

Easy for the instructor to get to learners with questions

Lighting

Not Applicable

Temperature

Lab are either very cold or very hot

Constraint 

 This might be a distraction for the learners.

Noise

Not Applicable

Equipment

Computer with internet access

Advantage

This is not limited to the lab. Computers with internet access are all over the building.

Technology Support

Instructional Technologist

Advantage

Instructional Technologist is typically the web master and will be able to address any technical problem on site.

Outcome Factors:

State Requirements

Advantage

Employer Needs

Requiring a Contact page for each teacher

Constraint

Every teacher will have to create on page on the system.

Co-worker Needs

Instructor

Advantage

Instructor is the webmaster, and knows how DNN works.

Student Needs

Handouts & Vodcasts

Advantage

Teachers will have these provided to them.  They will

Content Factors
Analyzing the content is a means to identify in general terms the topics to be addressed in your course and to analyze these topics in terms of the perquisite sub-topics, and degree of learning difficulty.

Main Topics

Sub-Topics (What Is Involved In Learning Each Main Topic?)

Readiness To Learn (Prerequisites Mastered)

Degree of Learning Difficulty (Real / Imagined)

Possible Instructional Strategies to Reduce or Manage Learning Difficulty

Learn the basic skill involved in developing a webpage in the DotNetNuke management system.

Learn how to log into the system

Need your username and password for website.

Real-So many of the skills are transferable form other programs that it is easy to get going.

Imagined- It is a webpage, and teachers will be leery about creating their own.  There is more behind the scenes stuff they will need to know than with the previous webpage.

·    Modeling of Skills

·    Practicing of Skills

·    Question and-Answers

·    Design time

Learn how the WYSIWYG works

Previous experience in a word processing program will help in learning the parts of the DNN WYSIWYG editor.

Learn how to upload files and images

Previous experience attaching files to an e-mail will help understanding how to upload files. 

Learn how to add new pages and link pages together

Continue to grown a webpage that is appropriate for your needs.

Maintain the information on the webpage.

After learning the basic steps the upkeep of the page should be easy.

Real- Once the basic steps are learned, the ease of use is unbelievable.  Teachers will feel very confidant after the first session.

Imagined- There are so many modules that teachers can use, that they may be overwhelmed at first.

·    Modeling of Skills

·    Practicing of Skills

·    Question and-Answers

·    Design time

Attend future sessions to learn new skills to improve the website.

Try new techniques and share them will colleagues and instructors.

Learn new modules such as blogging, RSS feeds and events as training becomes available.