Backward Instructional design for an educational open resource in Spanish Vocational Training: The case of the Web Apps Project

• Main Authors: Cristian Jorge GARCÍA MARCOS, Julio CABERO ALMENARA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2017-07-01
• Series: Education in the Knowledge Society
• Subjects: Educación; tecnología educativa; recursos educativos abiertos; formación profesional
• Online Access: http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/revistatesi/article/view/16808

The article is concerned with the instructional design process used to elaborate an educational media developing the Web Applications module curriculum of Microcomputer Systems and Networks Intermediate Level Training Cycle, which belongs to the professional family of Computing and Communications within the studies of Vocational Education and Training. A backward model is followed as instructional design to create the educational media, starting with the learning outcomes and ending with the contents, in a reverse way to the procedure used in other instructional designs. The educational media has been designed based on constructivism as pedagogical principle and it has been used to create projects for the student to be actively involved in the development of their knowledge. The result is an open educational resource composed of six didactic sequences, where the student is expected to achieve higher order thinking skills. In addition to openness in access, use, adaptation and redistribution of material, the article provides a detailed view of the process that has been followed in each phase of instructional design. In this way, the educational resource evolves from being not only open in its content, but also in its design, so that the latter becomes accessible, reusable, adapted and redistributed by others. The full open educational resource can be found at the following link: http://www.cristiangarcia.org/WebAppsProject/index.html