Outline the design of the instructional solution

Introduction

The aim of this proposal is to outline an effective instructional design solution for creating a multimedia video that addresses high school students about educational technology.

Instructional Solution

The instructional solution selected will be a short length (3-5 mins) online multimedia video presentation that provides the history and implications of educational technology. The benefits of having a multimedia video presentation is that it meets the requirement of reaching a large audience, in our case high school students. Having the accessibility to view the video will serve a great purpose in learning and reaching a wider audience as its reusability will be endless. The multimedia video provides consistency, a pre-recorded video allows the information to be consistent throughout the presentation, rather than having multiple guest speakers. The video will be of great quality, engaging, and have the flexibility for the audience to control audio volume, playback options, and provide closed captioning to follow along.

Our main objective is to create an engaging and interactive multimedia video to increase student interest. Within the video these objectives will be presented:

• Introduce high school students to the basic concept of educational technology such as definition and history.

• Explain to students what an educational technologist does in its career path.

• To provide examples of career opportunities and earnings of educational technologists in a variety of professions.

 Learning Principles

The learning principles are adopted from Richard Mayer and Clark , The Principles of Multimedia Learning. The instructional solution which is the multimedia video will embrace the principles of the aforementioned authors to maximize learning acquisition. Mayer suggests that most people can maintain maybe five to seven “chunks” of information in working memory at a given time  (Mayer E Richard, 2016), by providing a short length informative video about educational technology our high school audience will be able to obtain the learning information.

In order to deliver an effective video presentation, the following multimedia principles will be acquired, such as signaling, modality, and segmenting principles. The signaling principle are voice and visual cues that will allow learners to focus, organize and process the content. As we create our multimedia video the use of the signaling principle will keep us on track to incorporate engaging visuals and content information that is essentially aligned to our learning objectives and instructional design. The following two principles, modality and segmenting are known to be in alignment with the intrinsic cognitive load. Since this information will be new to our learners, the way we present information to them matters, so they can obtain it. The modality principle states that audio narration and visual graphics are the main focus while on screen text is limited. We want the learners to be presented with the information rather than have them read a vast amount of text. Mayer’s segmenting principle provides segmenting content, which improves learning because it gives the audience time to process and store information. The video will give learners control to press play, pause, stop and helps with pacing of the information.  

The way the information will be presented will all be planned out through a storyboard to have a systematic way of applying Mayer’s multimedia principles.

Conclusion

This proposal highlights instructional design solutions to create a multimedia video that addresses high school students about educational technology. An effective instructional design solution using multimedia content can bring together complex concepts and texts to make it more understandable for students. The multimedia video will be engaging, interactive, and provide students with a learning experience in the field of educational technology.

References

Mayer E Richard, C. R. (2016). E-Learning and the Science of Instruction. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.