During my LDT 502 course, my team and I spent several weeks creating our first course. My team and I worked together to be able to design a course that helped school faculty learn how to use DaVinci Resolve 18 so that the faculty could increase their online presence with their students.
The design process took several weeks to fully complete, and we definitely experienced our fair share of roadblocks. However, I am ultimately happy with the end result of the course. Today I want to reflect on my experience designing the course and discuss the good and bad aspects of the project.
The Challenge:
University School faculty were having trouble getting their online students to stay engaged and really grasp the course concepts in their classes online. The challenge was that we needed to train the school staff to use a program called DaVinci Resolve, which would help them be able to post videos into their Canvas courses so that they could increase their online presence and make their lessons more engaging.
Course Overview:
My team and I created a Google site that housed our course. Click the link to check out our course. https://sites.google.com/asu.edu/ldt-502/introduction
On the first page of the course, my team and I created an introduction page. I was actually the one on my team who primarily worked on this page; my goal was to make sure that the faculty understood the "why" behind our course. After learning about the faculty, I wanted them to understand how our course was going to be able to help them with their students. I feel like if people are not able to see the "why" behind something, they might not spend as much time really trying to understand the material. I think this is very important to school staff because, since they are university faculty, I am sure they already have a million other things to worry about, like grades, lesson planning, and helping students, so I felt this would be an important piece of the design process, and I think it helped align with the learners needs. I wanted to also provide them with the learning goal and instructional objectives ahead of time so they would know what they would be able to do by the end of the course.
The second page of the course reviewed DaVinci Resolves Basics. I think it was very important for the faculty to understand the software's basics since this software is not one that the faculty is familiar with. One thing that I loved that we added to our course was that it was slightly more detailed than our original design document, adding descriptions for Media Pool, Cut, Edit, Render, and Upload. I think that this provides clear descriptions, which I think would be helpful for faculty who have not worked with video editing before. The one area of the DaVinci Resolve Basics page that I would change going forward is that we included a full 40-minute tutorial on how to use DaVinci Resolve. Although I think the tutorial had a lot of useful information, a 40-minute video is pretty time-consuming, especially when thinking about how busy the faculty are. I would love to have maybe used a shorter video or worked with my team to create our own video on how to use DaVinci Resolve that is maybe shorter so that it will be less time-consuming and better aligned with the learners.
Page three of the course reviews how to operate DaVinci Resolve. This page mainly provides information on how to edit videos. I really like how we included video tutorials that broke down the video editing specifics, such as importing media, trimming, transitions, adding text, and color grading. I enjoy this page a lot because it allows faculty to either review all the videos or only review what they need to when they are editing their videos, which I think can be helpful if the faculty is ever on a time crunch when trying to upload their course videos to their classes.
Next, on the last page of the course, they reviewed how to upload videos from DaVinci Resolve to YouTube and how to embed the YouTube videos into their own Canvas courses. Overall, I think this page was very clear and concise, and the videos allowed the faculty to follow along in real time as they learned how to upload to YouTube and then embed them into their Canvas courses. One thing that we added to this page, which I really think helped us meet the goals that were outlined in our design case, was adding the self-assessment at the end of the module. The self-assessment helps faculty reflect on what they learned, how well they understand DaVinci Resolve, and if they need to further review or not, which I think is a huge asset when checking for understanding.
Finally, overall, despite the challenges in the design process leading up to our final product, I am very happy with the way our course was set up. I think that the course explains the "why" behind the learning and what valuable things the course offers to faculty. I also enjoyed how the course was set up and how the faculty navigated through the course. I feel the course is set up logically, and each page builds on the previous page and is clear and easy to follow. I think that the course aligns with the goals of the design case, which were to increase the faculty's online presence. I think that with the completion of the course, the faculty will have the tools they need to have an amazing online presence with their students. The only thing I would change going forward is implementing shorter course videos, but other than that, I am happy with the course that my team and I designed.
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