Course Objectives The Basics Throughout EDCI 337, I have learned a lot of things about interactive and multimedia learning. Before even taking this course, I had already taken EDCI 335: Learning Design for Technology-Mediated Environments. Both courses focus on interactive learning, so I had some experience before jumping into EDCI 337. Some of the challenges…
Accessibility Within Design Accessibility is the choice to make something more easily and readily available for people. Within the context of learning, inclusion, and design, accessibility becomes a way to give learners the opportunity to seek and understand knowledge. According to Kat Holmes, there are three crucial inclusive design principles that “seek to remove barriers…
Open Educational Resource Open Educational Resources (OERs) are a piece of learning material that can be freely and easily accessed in a public domain, such as on social media platforms, search engines (Google, Fire Fox, etc.). OERs can also (less commonly) be acquired for cheap in libraries or stores. OERs usually take the form of…
What is the Design Process? A design process is a series of general steps taken to create a final product. The design process is generally broken down into six main steps: Define (the problem), Ideate (come up with an idea), Prototype, Test, and Implement. These steps can be taken in sequence and iteratively, as seen…
Arduino Arduino is an open-source electronics platform composed of hardware and software. The hardware is composed of four main components: Input devices (microphone, light sensor, camera), output devices (speaker, LED light, motor), Arduino board (microcontroller), and connectors (wires). The Arduino software functions as an app to program the ‘brain’ of the Arduino board to execute…
Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning I have been going over the Week 2 notes, particularly the “Theories of Multimedia Learning,” and I thought the Mayer’s Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (CTML) could be of value to my Challenge A: Comic. Mayer’s CTML is broken down into three cognitive principles: Cognitive Load Theory, Dual Coding Theory,…
Recycling for Kids Updated: November XX, 2025Authors: Bashar Kabd, Neeraj Neeraj & Therese Taruc The Challenge C is a blog post documentation of the process we took to create an Open Educational Resource (OER) about Recycling. This learning pod consists of three pod members: Bashar Kabd, Neeraj Neeraj, and Therese Taruc. We chose Recycling because…
Healthy Habits: Hand Hygiene Stop the Spread, Wash Your Hands Right! Updated: October 22, 2025Authors: Neeraj Neeraj, Bashar Kabd, & Therese Taruc This blog post is a documentation of the process we underwent to create three 1-minute videos about our topic. This learning pod is composed of three members: Bashar Kabd, Neeraj, and Therese Taruc….
Hand Anatomy: an Educational Comic Updated: September 23, 2025Author: Bashar Kabd My goal for this project is to inform a high-school learner (audience) on the anatomy of the hand and forearm (basically everything below the elbow). I am creating this blog post as a submission to Challenge A for EDCI 337. I chose hand anatomy…
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