VED 12- DEVELOPMENT OF VALUES EDUCATION INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

DARRELL P. LOMEDA- Instructor

MODULE 1- PREPARATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

Intended learning outcomes

At the end of this section, you are expected to:

1. Deduce one’s exposure of various instructional materials, importance and

components

Materials
Instructional materials are
the content or information
conveyed within a course.
These include the lectures,
readings, textbooks,
multimedia components,
and other resources in a
course. These materials can
be used in both face-to-face
and online classrooms;
however, some must be modified or redesigned to be
effective for the online environment. The best
instructional materials are aligned with all other
elements in the course, including the learning objectives, assessments, and activities.

 
Why Is It Important?
Instructional materials provide the core information that students will experience, learn, and apply
during a course. They hold the power to either engage or demotivate students. This is especially
true for online courses, which rely on a thoughtful and complete collection of instructional materials
that students will access, explore, absorb, and reference as they proceed in a course.
Therefore, such materials must be carefully planned, selected, organized, refined, and used in a
course for the maximum effect. The planning and selection of instructional materials should take
into consideration both the breadth and depth of content so that student learning is optimized.

Examples of Instructional Materials

Common Instructional Content Types
Print Materials: Readings, Syllabus, Lesson/Assignment Files, Rubrics, Handouts
Digital Media/Recorded Lectures (Audio or Video): Movies/TV Clips/ YouTube, Podcasts, Screencasts, TEDx
Talks, etc.
Course Introduction Video
Presentation Materials: Lecture Notes, PowerPoint, Prezi, Adobe Captivate)
Expert Interviews, Guest Speaker Recordings
Case Studies/Scenarios
Educational Games
Simulations
Visualizations: Illustrative Pictures, Graphics, Interactive Data
Third Party Tools and Software
 Student-Created Content
Expert Blogs
Open Educational Resources (OER): Textbooks, Online Articles, Audio or Video Clips, Links to Online
Resources, Databases, Examples; Simulations
Websites
Software & Topical Training

Components of an instructional package

There are three major components of an instructional package.

1. Instructional Materials which are contained in content that is written, mediated or facilitated
by an instructor.
2. Assessments are all instructional material that is accompanied by objective tests or by
product or performance assessments.
3. Course Management Information is the general description of the total package, typically
called the instructor’s manual.
Course Management Information is the general description of a total package, that is usually
called the instructor’s manual, which provides the instructor with an overview of the material.
The materials usually include grade books, tests, student guidance templates, online testing,
and student tracking.
Existing Instructional Materials
There are five different categories
 Goal Centered
 Learner Centered
 Learning Centered
 Context Centered
 Technical Centered
There are other methods that are used that include active learning, which allows students to
answer questions, solve problems, formulate questions of their own, discuss, debate, or
brainstorm in class. In cooperative learning the students work as a team to solve problems.
Inductive methods are methods that include inquiry-based learning, case-based instruction,
problem based learning, project-based learning, discovery learning, and just-in-time teaching.

Instructional Materials and Formative Evaluation

 Formative evaluation is a useful too in analyzing learning materials, such as student learning
and achievements, and teacher effectiveness. Formative evaluation is primarily a building process
which accumulates a series of components of new materials and problems into an ultimate
meaningful whole.
 The whole purpose of doing a rough draft of the materials is to create a quick lower cost version
of your design to have something to guide the production and to take formative evaluations.
 Rapid prototyping is a process that uses prototype approximations of a software design in order
to test whether the application meets the design specifications.

Instructional Materials and Formative Evaluation Material Development Tools and

Resources
 Material production requires a certain skill set. Tools and resources are used to provide
instructions such as how-to guides. The media update frequently includes new developments that
make the instructions easier as the technology advances
Summary
As a lifelong learner, one of my main goals is to motivate students. To make sure that I am
effective in my career, I will be a facilitator, and assist my students with instructional material that
will help them in the classroom. In the current society of technology, instructors should place an
emphasis on students as active participants in the process of finding, organizing, analyzing, and
applying information to solve problems. As students mature they should become a part of the
learning community to collaborate in many different sources with different people.