Course Authors:
Darrell Naylor-Johnson, Vice President for SCAD eLearning
Josephine Leong, Associate Dean of the School of Film and Digital Media
Scott Dinho, Director of Educational Technology, formerly Instructional Designer
Christine Kingerski, Instructional Designer, formerly Media Designer
Insun He, Media Designer
Eren Erener, eLearning Specialist
From the Author:
“The Exemplary Course Program is an excellent resource for evaluating quality standards of online course design. The rubrics and information for evaluating the courses provide course developers with a means for measuring many facets of an institution’s distance learning courses. With much discussion in education right now focused on LMS adaptation, Blackboard’s ECP provides institutions with a frame work for assessing the extent to which an LMS can serve as a foundational development and delivery tool, but more importantly the extent to which an LMS supports effective teaching practices in blended and distance education can be assessed using the EPC rubric. SCAD eLearning is dedicated to providing the highest quality learning experience and online community for our students and faculty, so we make every effort to use tools like the ECP to improve what we do, measure our effectiveness and celebrate areas of success to build upon for future courses.” ~ Darrell Naylor-Johnson
About the Course:
ITGM 719: Scripting for Interactivity, guides interactive design students exploration of their programming skills through the use of scripting languages found in industry-standard web development tools. Students create highly interactive web applications with sophisticated and exciting interfaces. The course itself engages the students with a clever use of cooking and recipe metaphors that demonstrate using “ingredients” of various elements to build a multiple-source coding project. Illustrations and ActionScript examples are provided directly in the course, an instructional strategy to help students achieve course goals and objectives. The professor and students interact through discussion board and office hours using SCAD-provided technology for required discussion posts and peer reviews, and these methods also teach students to analyze their own work. At the conclusion of the course, students demonstrate proficiency in ActionScript programming concepts by developing a Flash-based game or similarly interactive environment.