ISD Project: Media Selection

Taking into consideration the media selection principles, guidelines, and questions outlined in this instructional material, accessibility and copyright issues, as well as additional reading and research you have done for this course, identify and select media for your instructional strategies. In a storyboard or course planning chart, clearly identify the media that will be used for each assessment, content delivery, and activity. Also identify the delivery system that will be used. Note that the delivery systems will affect the media selection for assessments, learning activities, and delivery of content.

Make sure your media selections are compatible and realistic; look for any commonalities. It is a good rule of thumb to use each selected media at least twice and to have no more than three to four types of media in the course. If you do, students can become overwhelmed and spend more time focusing on learning to use technology than meeting the objectives. Also, review your delivery system. It is likely that your delivery system may already be set in stone. However, if you have some flexibility you may want to consider your options at this point based on your media selections and based on the objective and learners. Once media is selected technology concerns will need to be addressed and support for technology assistance will need to be put in place. This should be part of your ISD planning.

For each selected media, answer the following in narrative or bullet form:

  • Are additional supports needed to access the media (e.g. plug-ins, special software, etc)?
  • What are the computer capability requirements that learners need to use the media?
  • What are the bandwidth requirements that learners need to use the media?
  • Who will create the media? What skills are needed?
  • What skills will the users (instructor and students) need? How will skills be developed?

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