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Final Project: Preliminary Notes

For a final project, students will design and develop an original, interactive, computer assisted piece of software which reflects their design and authoring skills. Students are expected to find and work with a client (or a group of users in your target audience) to develop software that addresses an instructional need for a specific group of users.

Any educational content suitable for a K-12 classroom or for a business training situation may be selected for a final project.

This project should reflect your knowledge of the content in addition to your design and authoring skills. It should be written in Authorware and address an instructional need about which you have first-hand knowledge.

The following materials must be submitted:

1. the program itself in source code and packaged format for both Mac and Windows platforms

2. documentation for your program which includes

• User instructions (brief, explicit, and suitable for the intended audience)
• Instructional objectives
• Description/summary of the lesson (250-500 words)
• Validation/rationale of the computer as an appropriate instructional medium (250-500 words)
• Curriculum integration recommendations (50-100 words)
• Detailed flowchart of the CAI design (note: this is not an Authorware flowchart).

3. a preliminary formative evaluation report (1000 words) on the use of the program by a small sample of the intended audience. Assessment criteria should relate to usability issues and the degree to which predetermined learning outcomes have been met (i.e. has any learning occurred and how do you know?) This report should include:

• a profile of the learners
• assessment criteria
• procedures that were followed
• results of the evaluation
• recommendations for revisions

The final project is due on May 8.

Any educational content may be selected for this project. Evaluation of this project is based on the following:

• the project contains all established design components
• the project fulfills instructional, programming, cosmetic and curriculum requirements (we will discuss these requirements over the next several weeks)
• the creativity and originality of the project

Points Possible for the Final Project

Final Project Component	Points Possible
Software	50 points
Project Documentation	25 points
Formative Evaluation	25 points
Total points possible for the final project = 100

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