Week 1

I created this Digital Media Checklist to include the following important identifying information: 

• Date the material was evaluated

• Evaluator

• Resource URL

• A description on the type of OER 

• Its intended audience

• Course Learning Objective (CLO) alignment with the current ID project

The checklist also evaluates the OER based on the following criteria:

• License

• Accessibility

• Cognitive load assessment based on Richard Mayer's Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning. 

Digital Media Checklist - Blank Template

Digital Media Checklist - Sample Completed Version

The URL Link to the OER evaluated:
https://wikieducator.org/IICD/Resources/ICT4E_Facilitator_Manual#Training_methodology:

This checklist was designed to guide someone, especially new to the world of ID, in evaluating a digital media resource. The checklist is also meant to evaluate the deliverables I will be creating for my minicourse. I embedded helpful links to information regarding licensing--which can get oftentimes confusing, within the checklist itself. Since this minicourse is grounded in the learning theory of Cognitivism, I wanted to add items based on Mayer's Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning. This will allow me to go through each digital material with a fine-toothed comb and make sure that these are not only accessible to learners, but that it also contains the necessary scaffolds to help learners accommodate new information into their existing schemas. This led to a checklist that was 8 pages long. However, the items are easy to score, and it took me within a minute to complete the checklist. 

One lesson I learned in the process of using the checklist in evaluating an OER is that the resources can provide me with insight into my own IDD development process. For instance, OER resources can provide me ideas on storyboarding synchronous portions of my minicourse by observing how others accomplished similar teacher-training efforts.