Design and Use of Instructional Material
This course underlines 'instructional message design' concerned with presenting and structuring information to promote learning. The course highlights research-based principles of instructional message design, and how to apply these principles into using sings and symbols to create effective instructional communications in multimedia, online lessons and print materials for diverse learners, in different content areas, and in variety of contexts. Instructional Message Design: Theory, Research and Practice course involves the application of information processing theory, cognitive load theory, motivation theory and communication theory to the design and evaluation of instructional media.