02 March 2021 Tuesday
Preparation of Course Materials in Distance Education
Preparation of Course Materials in Distance Education event is held by Asst. Prof. Dr. Derya KAVGAOGLU on 17.02.2021.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Derya Kavgaoğlu, the Head of Social Work (Turkish) Department, gave a lesson on 17 February 2021 on how to benefit from the principles and methods offered by educational sciences for the effective management of education processes that have been digitized with the COVID-19 Pandemic process. Kavgaoğlu in education took attention to the successful practices in the international platform.
Emphasizing that in distance education, well learning experiences can be constructed through correct material design and correct social interaction Asst. Prof. Dr. Derya Kavgaoğlu presented the application principles with basic questions such as “How should the correct material design be? How should course material be organized in form and content? If we pay attention to what practical principles, we can teach more effectively? How and why should social interaction contribute to this process?"
It was explained how multimedia that contains visual and auditory elements such as text, photographs, animation, music, drawing, audio-silent video, which are used to facilitate learning in the digital environment, reduce learning performance and increase cognitive load on students when not used correctly. In addition, by explaining how the memory processes the teaching material to which it is exposed, with the principle of binary coding, it also focused on examples of material design in accordance with this principle.
Kavgaoğlu exemplifyng how design principles such as contiguity principle, split attention effect, individual differences principle, and coherence principle can be used to facilitate learning by including multimedia design principles in material preparation, gave information about the elements used in lecture presentations in the later minutes of the training. In this context, Kavgaoğlu expressed the principles regarding the organization of the scope as well as the formal features such as the organization of the elements used on the page in the lecture presentations, the use of colors, and typography, and introduced the tools that can be used for the effective use of the presentation strategy.
Finally, Kavgaoğlu explained how new information can be structured on previously acquired knowledge with K, W, L Grid and how advance organizers can be used with the Power Point Smart Art tool. She completed the lesson by mentioning the importance of strategies to increase social interaction between student - student and student - teacher groups and importance of learner-centered teaching and communication strategies that will increase student success .
