This week, in reviewing various excellent examples of instruction design, I was impressed by the high-quality online content that these online schools can offer. For example, FVS’s science class was interesting, interactive (between both student-student and student-teacher) and included many multimedia modes to deliver content. Students are allowed to explore science through everyday examples that can help them learn better to actively apply the knowledge when it comes to real world situations. Students acquire and retain information most effectively when material is relevant and presented in the context of real-life events and situations. They want to know how the concepts and principles they are learning affect them and often search for meaning by making connections between what they are learning in school and their own realities outside of the (virtual) classroom. Educators/course designers should make sure these real-life situations/goals are age appropriate and relevant to the knowledge of the learner group with attention to achieve the maximum effect.
Also, this is my first time learning about wet labs/virtual labs and I find this concept really innovative as it provides student with a complete set of genuine lab experience and students actually go into real world and collect data to write their reports. The multimedia modes allow students to also work on their own pace, referring to various lessons if they needed reinforcements or skip/advance to lessons if they want. Students are also forced to get creative in solving problems (or work collaboratively with partners) once the lab is started since the instructor is not physically there in the middle of the experiment.
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