Week 4 Blog Curriculum Design

In this week's studies, we learned about the importance of how a page layout is critical to our learners. With the growing number of devices that students can use to view web pages, as an educator, we must consider their learning style. It is essential to create web pages that could adapt to whatever device the learner is using, should that be a desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone.

Out of the seven tips listed for us on 7 Tips To Create Responsive Design For Mobile Learning, I found Previewing your eLearning course on multiple platforms the most useful. As we can, at times, forget to see what our final result may look like "live" as opposed to the edited session.

I definitely need to learn more about Cognitive Learning Theories or CLT because it covers a broad spectrum of learning skills for the learner. Today's classrooms are occupied by learners who are diverse in many essential ways, including intelligence and learning style. As an educator, we need to be prepared to address student needs virtually at many different levels. As suggested by Victor and Spencer, the overarching principle of multimedia learning is that we learn more effectively from words and pictures than from words alone. Mayer refers to essentially the same types of cognitive load as those of CLT, though he uses slightly different terminology:

• Extraneous processing (equivalent to extraneous load of CLT)

• Essential processing (equivalent to intrinsic load of CLT)

• Generative processing (equivalent to germane load of CLT)

An understanding of multisensory learning is vital when teaching online to learners of all ages.

References

Victor, S., Spencer, T. (2020, January 13). 3 Cognitive Theories For Transforming Learning. Retrieved from https://elearningindustry.com/transforming-learning-3-cognitive-theories

Seilhamer, R., Chen, B., Salter, A., & Bennet, L. (2018, April 23). Changing Mobile Learning Practices: A Multiyear Study 2012–2016. Retrieved April 6, 2020, from https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/4/changing-mobile-learning-practices-a-multiyear- study-2012-2016#fn5

Mobile Learning. (n.d.). Retrieved April 6, 2020, from https://library.educause.edu/topics/teaching-and-learning/mobile-learning

Pappas, C., (2018, March 16). 7 Tips To Create Responsive Design For Mobile Learning. Retrieved April 6, 2020, from https://elearningindustry.com/7-tips-create- responsive-design-mobile-learning