Introduction to Ohm's Law Course
Self-Paced Learning Style
This exploratory project involved the design and implementation of an interactive self-paced course to teach the principles of Ohm's law. The course consists of approximately 26 screens of text, narrations, graphics, quizzes, and interactive flash simulations.
The purpose of the project was to calculate approximate instructional hour-to-development estimates using our recently developed authoring tools and to explore the use of synthetic text-to-speech processing.
Development Ratio Exploration
In the first iteration, the two hour course took approximately 20 hours to produce for a development ratio of 1:10. This included the addition of text, graphics, quizzes, and narration. In the second iteration, five or six interactive quiz sections were removed and replaced with Flash simulations. The final development ratio was approximately 1:27.
Text-to-speech Exploration
The narrations used in this course are computer generated from text-to-speech directly from the course storyboard into MP3 format. We were looking for a low-cost alternative for adding narration to courses and an alternative that would simplify the editing process.
