Using Digital Storytelling to enhance an existing teacher education curriculum: How digital tools can enhance content, engagement and outcomes without adding new courses in a mandated program.
Abstract: This presentation shows how a combined group of faculty and instructional design professionals designed a digitally-enhanced, self-guided experience to master Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) concepts, applying those concepts in a pre-existing teacher education curriculum. We demonstrate the elements of planning, design, and selection of digital storytelling technology and its use in creating a supplementary SEL program enhancing the achievement of program learning outcomes and show how the faculty/instructional design team enhanced the relationship and collaboration of their functions in developing effective interactive learning tools. Descriptions/demonstration of the planning process, instructional design principles, and technology are included as well as discussion of the lessons learned in the process and plans for future projects of this nature.
Presider: Brian Arnold, National University