Steps |
Instructional Unit |
Step 1: Identify the tasks |
- Email
- Collaborate on document creation
- Video conference
- Tele conference
- Chat online
- Use collaboration software
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Step 2: Identify the specific behaviors |
- Mouse clicking
- Locate programs
- Opening programs
- Printing
- Attaching documents to emails
- Send email
- Generate presentation
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Step 3: Determine the sequential dependencies |
- Must be able to click before locating programs
- Must be able to locate programs before opening them
- Must be able to open documents before printing them
- Must be able to open a new email dialogue before attaching documents to it
- Must be able to open a new email dialogue before being able to send it
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Step 4: Sequence the behaviors |
- Email
- Locate and open email program
- Read new email
- Print email
- Reply to email
- Format email contents
- Attach documents
- Send email
- Collaborate on document creation
- Locate and open document creation program
- Format contents of document
- Enable change tracking
- Create comments in the document
- Accept and reject document changes from other team members
- Tele conference
- Activate 3-way calling
- Navigate phone tree for tele conferencing services
- Video conference
- Activate video conference service
- Use collaboration software
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Step 5: Plan the instructional progressions |
- Locate, open, and demonstrate use of virtual team software
- Review simple program features
- Review document formatting
- Review netiquette
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Step 6: Analyze the criterion behaviors |
- Learners must discriminate between program icons
- Learners will be required to apply common program features to multiple different programs such as changing text size, printing, and creating new documents.
- Learners will need to adapt to use potentially new jargon to communicate with team members such as “IM”ing.
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Step 7: Select alternative instructional approaches |
- Demonstrate correct use of programs in each task
- Consult a decision tree on the optimal times to use either email, tele conferencing, video conferencing, chatting online, etc.
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Step 8: Adjust for individual differences |
- Pretest each student's knowledge
- Place students in various parts of the instructional sequence based on their pretest results
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