A taxonomy for instructional design

Brad Hokanson; Simon Hooper

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 3137–3139

Educational uses of technology, indeed pedagogy in general, often remain mired in traditional notions of instruction that focus on information delivery. A diverse range of methods are available for instruction; these choices have been expanded by...

Topics: Instructional Design, Educational Technology

The Learning Software Awards Competition

Brad Hokanson; Simon Hooper

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) p. 764

Avenue ASL: Transforming Language Assessment and Learning through Networked Video Integration

Simon Hooper; Charles Miller; George Veletsianos

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 3919–3924

Avenue ASL, an integrated software environment to capture, evaluate, self-assess, and manage American Sign Language (ASL) performance, is being developed at the University of Minnesota to improve student language learning and increase the efficiency ...

Topics: Assessment, Software, Students, Languages, Video

Role-Based Design: Rethinking Innovation and Creativity in Instructional Design

Charles Miller; Brad Hokanson; Simon Hooper

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1804–1811

We believe the process of instructional design is in need of foundational transformation, from one of following a codified algorithm to a new way of designing that uses specific roles to define project values, responsibilities, and activities. In...

Using data to support instructional decision making: Designing a progress monitoring system to use with students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Simon Hooper; Susan Rose; Rayne Sperling

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 1503–1510

Ave: PM is a web-based progress monitoring system we designed to help teachers to monitor their children's literacy The software presents students with brief assessments and uses novel interfaces to help teachers score the assessments Scoring data...

Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Research & Evaluation, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Results and conclusions from a Learning Software Design Competition

Brad Hokanson; Simon Hooper; Paul Bernhardt

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) p. 1816

The University of Minnesota's Design Institute is sponsoring a competition to recognize the design of innovative educational software. The competition was open to professional and not-for-profit educational software designers in such areas as higher ...

Topics: Educational Technology, Software, Inclusive Education

Results of a learning software design competition

Brad Hokanson; Simon Hooper; Paul Bernhardt

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 1004–1105

This paper presents the results of the first Learning Software Design Competition sponsored by the University of Minnesota. Results and observations from the process of the competition are included.

Topics: Software

InfoViz for Education: Using Interactive Information Visualization to Enhance Sense- and Decision-Making for Teachers and Students

Charles Miller; Simon Hooper; Luke Lecheler

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1798–1803

Information visualization involves the visual, and sometimes interactive, presentation and organization of complex data in a clear, compelling, and convincing representation. Although information visualization research and methods are prevalent in...

InfoViz and Online Learning: How Design can influence Decision-Making

Charles Miller; Simon Hooper; Lucas Lecheler

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) pp. 1132–1138

Information visualization involves the visual, and sometimes interactive, presentation and organization of complex data in a clear, compelling, and convincing representation. Although information visualization research and methods are prevalent in...

AvenueDHH: Reading, Writing and Language e-Assessment for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Learners

Charles Miller; Simon Hooper; Susan Rose

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 3735–3741

Hearing loss has a devastating impact on the development of children’s English-language literacy skills. This paper presents a narrative of the design, development, and future integration of a web-based progress-monitoring environment in the area of ...

Design and Development of a Reading, Writing, and Language e-Assessment Environment for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing K-8 Learners

Charles Miller; Simon Hooper; Susan Rose; Luke Lecheler

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1792–1797

Hearing loss has a devastating impact on the development of children’s English-language literacy skills. This paper presents a narrative of the design, development, and future integration of a web-based progress-monitoring environment in the area of ...

The Avenue Platform: Redefining World Language E-Assessment

Lucas Lecheler; Charles Miller; Bradford Hosack; Susan Rose; Simon Hooper

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 1213–1221

The Avenue platform, designed and developed by faculty and staff in Learning Technologies, Educational Psychology, and the LT Media Lab at the University of Minnesota, is an innovative online performance assessment framework comprised of two...

Topics: Instructional Design, Tools & Systems

Examining the usability of images in the design of a web-based progress monitoring system for students who are Deaf / Hard of Hearing

Simon Hooper; Rayne Sperling; Susan Rose; Jian Liao; Michelle Hepfer; Xinyur Li; Anne Marie Gardner

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 270–276

Ave: PM is a software suite designed to help monitor the literacy development of students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Our presentation will address the issues associated with using traditional progress monitoring tools and briefly demonstrate...

Topics: Alternative and innovative assessment methods