Design Practice: Final Decisions Exercise
Final Decisions Exercise
As your last exercise in this course, you will now complete the design cycle by making your final decisions in preparation for submitting your lesson deliverable. To help you in this process, we recommend the following approach:
1. Create a list of possible revisions
Based on your own self-assessment of your prototype, as well as the feedback from the formative evaluation, create a list of possible revisions to your lesson. Your list could be long or short, but include all items raised as a concern, including areas where opinions conflict, or where you have concerns.
2. Note conflicting opinions within the feedback
The conflict could be between other reviewers of your work, or between you and another reviewer. If the area of conflict is over a significant aspect of your lesson, consider seeking a second opinion. This involves seeking the opinion from another (third) person to talk through the areas of contention. To do this, you could ask a peer, or reach out to a subject matter expert, and get their opinion about how (if) they would address the area of concern.
3. Look for gaps in feedback
If you find yourself with not as much feedback as you had hoped, or feedback that doesn't give you much guidance and direction, weigh the cost (spending more time) and benefit (more feedback) of soliciting more opinions. To do this, you could ask a peer, or reach out to a subject matter expert. If you decide to go back to request additional feedback, spend time upfront preparing the reviewer(s) by being organized in what feedback you want, and outlining your specific questions and areas of concern.
4. Rank the revisions in terms of impact
Take a close look at your list of revisions, and ask yourself, "Which revisions will have the most impact on improving the performance of the learners who complete the instruction?" From the ranked list, you should start to see a split between the "needed" versus "nice to have" revisions.
5. Make your final revisions
Starting with the highest impact "needed" items on your list, make revisions to your prototype in Open Author. If you have the time, move on to the "nice to have" revisions. If you find the revisions to your prototype will be substantial, you may want to make a copy of your prototype and work from a new version that won't contain the prototype feedback.
6. Submit your final deliverable ... Yay!
When you have made your final revisions, please complete your last design reflection where you will submit your final deliverable, and reflect on the process you have taken. Congratulations, and thank you for your service to this important need!