Designing Media-Based Learning Tools

Educators have been using technology to gain leverage over the process of teaching for over 100 years. Nowhere has that effort been more apparent than in the use of media for instruction. This chapter looks at a university class designed to explore the factors involved in using media for education, what its constituent parts are, and how educators might design more effective media-centric solutions in the future. A taxonomy of these parts was developed in a structured seminar and subsequently applied to think about a new generation of media tools for education.