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 Hello, my peers! It is the final reflection for the R547 class. In my last blog, I would like to look back on my journey over the past 6 weeks. Trying new things always gives me stress and stimulation. Designing web-based instruction has been one of them for me. Lack of time, self-designing instruction, studying basic knowledge related to web development, and coding made it difficult to proceed with the project. Fortunately, thanks to Dr. Scott’s detailed explanations, feedback, and good learning materials, the project seems to have progressed without big issues. Luckily, I've been thinking about the content of this instruction for a long time. So, I think I was able to devote that time to the detailed instruction content and website design instead of spending time deciding on the content. I've never done web development, but I am currently working as a mobile app developer, so writing codes were relatively easy to understand and use. Of course, the basic rules and interfaces ...

 I have mostly focused on building prototypes this week. Last year, while taking the R521, I was able to make a prototype using the Illustrator thanks to the experience of creating images and making books using the illustrator. I made the parts I had already made at the website almost the same, and the rest of the parts were roughly composed based on the content and assessment I had made. It was quite difficult to visually express learning contents that are not clearly designed. I roughly made a prototype and asked my husband to test it because of the lack of time. He gave me some very useful feedback. The planned course is to teach how to design basic mobile apps for anyone who is an educator in the education field and wants to create an educational app. First, there was an opinion that the title of the course was ambiguous. It was argued that it was difficult to know exactly what was to be learned. Also, he addressed that some parts of the lesson 1 & 2 are not needed, and rat...

 One thought has been running through my head ever since I started this class: how to provide an authentic learning environment to the potential learners for my instruction?  Sometimes when I took classes, I studied a huge amount of content, but I didn’t know what I've learned after the classes. Sometimes I didn’t know how to apply what I learned when the situation was given. At the time, I thought that I didn't study hard or didn't understand it properly, so I was not able to solve this problem. But after studying last week and this week, I realized it wasn't my fault. I think this is because the classes I learned mostly evaluated whether the concept was well delivered. They did not offer the opportunity of practicing applying what I had learned to problems I might encounter in my real life. Of course, a good understanding of the basic concepts is important. However, any knowledge is not useful unless applying the concepts learned to real-world problems. In other words...