Multimedia Instructional Design for Engineering Faculty

强大的多媒体创作工具，现在成为允许工程教育工作者开发多媒体课件，比以往任何时候都少得多的努力。工程教育工作者如果不熟悉教学设计的原则，很容易乱套，制作出效果不佳的多媒体教学材料。这个研讨会的目标是指导30名教育工作者谁教工程或工程前的教学设计的基础知识，特别是应用于工程多媒体教学材料。研讨会将主要由一位经验丰富的教学设计师授课，他也有在课堂上教授数学和科学以及多媒体教学设计中的商业课程的经验。SIMPLE是一个功能强大但易于使用的软件构建环境，它是在NSF课程和课程开发项目的部分支持下开发的，将作为工具之一。本课程将介绍由国家科学基金会支持的多媒体课件。研讨会团队由来自ExperTech（一家小型软件公司）、Amarillo College（一所两年制学院）和Texas Tech University（一所博士研究所）的成员组成。在整个两年期间，小组成员将通过因特网上的一个特别邮件名单与参加者进行广泛的互动。除了在会议上进行交流外，因特网上的一个FTP网址将便于分发所开发的软件。在整个讲习班期间，将向讲习班参加者讲授评价方法的基本知识，以便他们能够有效地评价他们使用或开发的课件。

Powerful multimedia authoring tools now becoming available permit engineering educators to develop multimedia courseware with much less effort than ever before. Without familiarity with the principles of instruction design, it is easy for engineering educators to run amuck and produce ineffective multimedia instructional materials. The goal of this workshop is to instruct 30 educators who teach engineering or pre-engineering the basics of instructional design, particularly as applied to multimedia instructional materials in engineering. The workshop sessions will be taught largely by an experienced instructional designer who is also experienced in teaching mathematics and science in the classroom, as well as commercial courses in multimedia instructional design. SIMPLE, a powerful but easy-to-use software construction environment developed with partial support from an NSF Course and Curriculum Development Project, will serve as one of the tools. Multimedia courseware from the NSF-supported coalitions will be introduced as examples. The workshop team consists of members from ExperTech, a small software company, Amarillo College, a two year institution, and Texas Tech University, a doctoral institution. The team members will interact extensively with the participants throughout the 2-year period by means of a special mailing list on the Internet. Besides communication at conferences, an FTP site on the Internet will permit easy distribution of developed software. The workshop participants will be instructed in the basics of evaluation methodologies throughout the workshop so that they can effectively evaluate the courseware they use or develop.