CSE 332: Multimedia Design and Development
Professor Glenn David Blank

 

Office: 328 Packard Lab       Phone: 610-758-4867    Hours: MTWTh 2:30-3:30PM

Email: glenn.blank@lehigh.edu                   Web site: http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~glennb

Course description: Analysis, design and implementation of multimedia software, primarily for e-learning courses or training.
Projects emphasize user interface design, content design with storyboards or scripts, creation of graphics, animation,
audio and video materials, and software development using high level authoring tools, such as Flash.
Prerequisite: CSE12, CSE15, Engr 1 or consent of instructor. Blank.

Required text:

David Unruh, e-Learning with Macromedia Flash MX 2004, available as a pdf file (also exercises in a zip file).

Ruth Colvin Clark Oand Richard E. Mayer, e-Learning and the Science of Instruction, Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer 2003.

Recommended text (on reserve in FM library):

Lisa Lopuck, Multimedia Design (PeachPit Press, 1996) (out of print, on reserve in Fairchild-Martindale Library)

Requirements (no exams):
       Paper comparing The Universal Machine and The Analytical Engine                                                                         5%

       Paper comparing The Universal Machine and The Universal Computer                                                                      5%

      Class learning activity                                                                                                                                                           10%

       Flash lab exercises                                                                                                                                                                10%
       Class participation                                                                                                                                                                10%
       Team project (analysis, UI prototype, design (script/storyboard), user observation report and final project):    60%

 

Syllabus

Class  Topic                                                                                      Readings (assignments due)

1/18     Goals

1/20     Two e-learning titles; Assembling a multimedia team     Lopuck pp. 2-4 (comparison paper due before class)

1/25     Project proposals                                                                  Lopuck pp 6-8
1/27     Flash lab (Grace 28): Drawing and Text                             Unruh chapters 1-3

2/1       Multimedia software life cycle                                           (proposals)

2/3       Analysis and use cases                                                       Lopuck ch 2 (form teams)

2/8       Multimedia structures and authoring tools                      Lopuck ch 2-3

2/10     Flash lab (Grace 28): Animation                                         Unruh ch 4, Lopuck ch5&6

2/15     E-learning&cognitive principles                                         Clark ch 1-3 (project analysis)

2/17     User interface design; contiguity                                       Lopuck ch4,  Clark ch 4

2/22      Storyboards and scripting                                                   Lopuck ch1 (second comparison paper)

2/24    Flash lab (Grace 28): Symbols and Learning interactions   Unruh ch 5&7

3/1      Closer look at sound and text, modality & redundancy   Clark ch 5-6

3/3      Flash lab (Grace 28): Multimedia and ActionScript          Unruh ch 6&8 (project design I)

3/15    Closer look at video development; UI prototypes           (demo user interface prototypes)         

3/17    Flash lab (Grace 28): Customizing interactions                 Unruh ch 9&10   

3/22    Coherence, personalization                                                  Clark ch 7-8
3/24    Flash lab (Grace 28):  Hypermedia maps & Slideshows   Unruh ch 11&12

3/29    Usability analysis                                                                    

3/31    Flash lab (Grace 28): Drag&drop & preloaders                 Unruh ch 13&14  (project design II)

4/5      Practice                                                                                    Clark ch 9-10

4/7      Flash lab: (Grace 28): Drill                                                     Unruh ch 15

4/12   Collaborative e-learning                                                         Clark ch 11-12, Lopuck p. 90

4/14    Flash lab: Games                                                                      Unruh ch 16

4/19   CSS and Dynamic  HTML                                                       

4/21   Content and copyright

4/26   Present content prototypes                                                   (project user observation reports)

4/28   More prototypes
Final exam period, no final exam, due no later than May 11        (Final project)