I've gotten rolling with my final project. I think. What I intended to do is to create a multimedia module which shows what the Information Value Chain is, and applies it to (at least) one realistic scenario. I've presented this framework before in slides where I could talk people through it, but I've never attempted to make it a self-standing module.
What I've found is that it really feels more like I am writing a movie (or video game) than developing a learning module. Except that at every step along the way I have to catch myself and ask, "is that content relevant or irrelevant? Is it socially or culturally biased? How would that be interpreted by someone with low hearing, low vision, low strategic function, etc."
I am firmly committed to making this real and relevant. It is an important and serious topic, and the audience is professional adults. So I cannot dumb it down or make it childish. Not that it can't include humor... but it needs to be appropriate. I normally plan to spend eight hours of development for every one hour of deliverable content. But it looks like navigating the path of developing media with universality in mind is going to quadruple that development time. At least for my first one.
On the upside, with practice this will just become my new process. It will get easier and faster for me as I experiment and incorporate it into my style. And then, I can see how the stuff I produce is going to be better the whole way around.
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