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For this assignment, you will apply Badrul Khan’s Web-Based Framework to evaluate an online course offered by a corporate organization for training purposes, academic course, or a virtual high school course.

Preparation

Using a course of your choice, answer the questions outlined in the Matrix for Evaluation of E-Learning Courses.

Instructions

After answering and commenting on each question in the matrix, evaluate how well the course meets the eight dimensions of Khan’s Web-Based Framework.

Write a 4–6 page paper in which you:

1. Answer the questions in the matrix about the selected course.

• Add the matrix with the questions and your answers as an appendix in your paper.

2. Describe and evaluate the selected online course offered by a corporate organization for training purposes, academic institution, or a virtual high school, including:

• Type of course.
• Length.
• Target learners.
• Delivery method (such as text, audio, or video lecture).

3. Describe and evaluate your chosen online course, including:

• Interactivity.
• Types of instructor-student communication.
• Collaboration opportunities.
• Two other key features.

4. Evaluate the selected online course using nine dimensions of Khan’s Web-Based Framework.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

• Evaluate an online course using Badrul Khan’s Web-Based Framework.

There are advantages and disadvantages of taking a class or module online and in person. There are also advantages and disadvantages of hybrid learning.

• Discuss your preference of learning environment in your current or future role. 
  • Include at least two advantages and disadvantages for your selection.

From the discussion preparation, discuss at least two ways constructivism, as a learning theory, supports and is supported by the e-Learning process.

1. Define e-Learning.
2. Summarize at least five significant developments in e-Learning over the past 10 years.
3. Evaluate at least three primary benefits of providing and offering high-quality online training, courses, and programs to employees and learners in businesses, K–12 schools, or institutions of higher education.
4. Analyze at least three primary reasons some businesses, K–12 schools, or institutions of higher education are hesitant or choose not to offer full online courses and programs.
5. Predict the extent to which e-Learning will replace the traditional face-to-face learning in K–12 and higher educational settings.
6. Recommend at least three ways technology will be needed to support and sustain the e-Learning process.
7. Provide at least five academic references published within the last five years to support your paper. ( Use SWS format)

• Discuss at least three ways the Internet environment affects cognition, motivation, and learning.
  • Comment on the positive and negative aspects of each.

• Recommend three ways to use computer, mobile, and Internet technology to deliver your organization’s courses to its students. 

• Speculate on any barriers or challenges your target student population might encounter with taking classes via the ways you recommended and potential ways to mitigate those barriers or challenges

You have been hired as the new Division Diversity and Inclusion Officer. One of your top priorities is ensuring that all curricula include measures to incorporate multicultural education in all core subject areas. This assignment is significant because as student populations become more diverse, all learners should be able to see their cultures represented in instructional material. Students will be able to make text to self connections and will use this knowledge in all aspects of their lives.

Preparation

Databases

For this assignment, you will be focusing on multicultural approaches and techniques you can incorporate into the classroom. You may use the following databases in the Strayer Library to help you locate the resources needed for this assignment:

• Education Resources Information Center
• Education Source

Additional resources may be located on the Databases for EDU page in the Strayer Library.

PowerPoint

In addition, you will be using PowerPoint for your presentation. Refer to Microsoft's PowerPoint Training page if you need help with this.

Instructions

Create a 10–15 slide PowerPoint presentation in which you design a unit that is appropriate for a specific grade level or subject you currently teach or will teach. As part of the unit, you will:

• Incorporate one of the four multicultural approaches (Contributions, Additive, Transformation, or Social). 
  • Highlight three main characteristics of the selected approach with a brief explanation of each characteristic.
• Include two strategies that can be used to reduce or eliminate the color-blind perspective in your unit. 
  • Support the strategies.
• Incorporate a minimum of five resources in your unit. 
  • Include a list of at least five specific resources that will be utilized to integrate the strategies.
  • At least one of the resources must be a form of an adaptative technology resource for students who need this level of support.
• Recommend at least three strategies that teachers can implement multicultural techniques in their classroom. 
  • Include support for implementing these strategies.
• Create speaker notes for each slide of the presentation that demonstrate an understanding of the intended audience and a familiarity with the material. 
  • Make sure the presentation is appropriate to the grade level of the intended audience.
  • Notes should be well-organized.
  • Information presented should include enough detail to be easily followed.

Parents and other diverse community stakeholders have a significant impact not only on a school’s culture but on the academic performance of students within the school.

• Research and discuss two benefits that students would gain from the increased involvement of diverse parent and community groups in schools.

Preparation

1. In this activity, you are use the Internet to research a minimum of five forms of current technology that can be used as part of instructional delivery in the classroom.
   • The following websites can be used to research educational technology resources:
     • Innovative Technology for K–12 & College Classrooms. -  Technology In Education (accreditedschoolsonline.org)
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     • 10 Technology Tools to Engage Students in the Classroom. - 15 Technology Tools To Engage Students In The Classroom (teachthought.com)
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   • • 27 Tech Tools Teachers Can Use to Inspire Classroom Creativity. - 27 Tech Tools Teachers Can Use to Inspire Classroom Creativity | Ozobot    

1. Visit the International Society for Technology in Education website and select one student standard and one teacher that is applicable to each technology resource you selected.

Instructions

• Briefly summarize the technology resource by:
  • Explaining how it can be used in your lesson.
  • Explaining how the resource can be adapted for those students who may need adaptive support.
  • Explaining how the resource can the accessed by all students.
  • Including a link to each resource and an image if one is available.
• For each standard selected from the International Society for Technology in Education website,
  • Summarize the student standard that is applicable to each resource and include it in your e-portfolio with the corresponding technology resource.