Distance Education Group Project Proposals
I. A major national restaurant/retail chain has decided to transition their Management Professional Development coursework from a traditional correspondence format to a Web-based, intranet, Distance Education format. This program encompasses such areas as labor management, employee training and retention. Food inventory control and management, supply inventory control and management, and guest relations. They are requesting a proposal including detailed plans and technologies to be incorporated.
II. A large, suburban school district has announced plans to develop virtual, interactive coarse work for their freshman level World Civilizations courses at their three high schools. They seek proposals and detailed plans that establish this goal within in State Educational Objectives.
General Assignment Description.
For each of these projects, the group will provide the following information;
I. Learner Analysis
This document should identify the general characteristics of the learners for proposed project. This includes general age range, learning capabilities, computer skills, etc. The group should include two personas to help identify samples of their learners.
I. General introduction of proposed project.
This document will provide anexecutive summary of the proposed project outline the general goals of the entire project to be proposed.
II. Course Design. Document
This document will include an executive summary of the proposed project, general description of course goals and objectives, schedule/outline, learning activities, interactions between users. For this project the users are defined as teachers/presenters, learners, and in some cases, organizational supervisors who would need to be included in the assessment/evaluation portion of learners for promotional purposes.
.III, Detail Document
This document will provide two sample lessons to demonstrate learning activities, a specific description of the learning environment, and a detailed technology plan. The technology plan should describe the technologies to be incorporated into the entire project.
IV Requirement Document
This document will detail functional requirements of the project, the proposed approach to the learning environment and the curriculum scope and requirements for the project. The functional requirements should include a brief overview, Session Structure/Schedule, proposed time and grouping schedule, roles and responsibilities of each user. The description of the learning environment should include proposed activity types and descriptions, proposed instructional assessment activities, proposed learner engagement tools. Finally, the Content requirements section should include the specific timeline of activities, specific objectives being addressed and types of learning content and activities, and the assessment tools for each activity, as well as the technological resources that will be incorporated.