This week, we discussed the future of multimedia learning. It is hard to predict the future trends in today’s high-paced technology development. Artificial Intelligence AI plays a big part in enhancing the interactive experience in our daily life. Recently, I was looking for a live chat plug-in service for my website. I found this can…

In this week’s topic, we discussed active learning and passive learning. Active learning, as the name suggests, is an instructional strategy where students take an active role in their own learning, participating in activities and, reflecting on their learning(Sandercock, 2013). Watching Active Learning Overview amazed me that the course designed with active learning has a 12%…

For this assignment, I decided to look back into the Design Principles. I’m running a charger brand with my friends and we are currently selling on Amazon. In the e-commerce world, one way to attract customers is through good image design. In the past few weeks in this course, I learned the principles of design.…

In this week’s reading material, 7 Storytelling Techniques Used by the Most Inspiring TED Presenters, I found the most compelling TED presenter for me is Dananjaya Hettiarachchi. Metaphor At the beginning and end of this presentation, he used a rose to liken a human’s life, it draws the audience’s attention, which is connected to the whole…

-Backward Design We use a lot of backward designs in our daily life. The most common scene is before we go to the grocery store. Usually, we will design the menu before we go grocery shopping. This is similar to the backward design step — identify desired result. Then we will make a shopping list…

-Worst PowerPoint Presentations By looking at The World’s Worst Powerpoint Presentations, we can easily find out that all of the examples in the text have several common issues that a presenter will make: -mixing text and image: As the example in the text, it’s a bad idea to use an image as a background and all…

My friends and I are into the e-commerce industry. We used to run a WordPress site with Woocommerce plugin as our online shop. But that wasn’t a good experience: plugins clash due to lack of experience, and lack of website media running skills. That’s why I want to take this course, to learn more about…