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Title: Gender-Balanced
and User-Informed Online Instructional Design, © 2008, Comma
Productions, Alex Sergay,
Elizabeth Nofs
Description: The audience
for distance learning is overwhelmingly women. Are you speaking
to them? This presentation looks at lessons learned from
implementing a national online college curriculum. We’ll show
how the Comma Method (observation, orientation, and notation)
focuses on the needs of women. We demonstrate the benefits of
user interface testing and revisions within the Moodle LMS
Abstract: Cognitive
overload is a danger in non teacher-mediated learning systems
such as self-paced distance education courses() . The student
must not only attend to the instructional material, she has to
navigate the course without the benefit of a teacher’s
direction. The need to keep navigational instructions in working
memory in particular can lead to reduced performance.
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