Week 11 – What We Can Learn From iLearn and Anytown
Both iLearn and Anytown designed the interactions in a way that they were realistic. In iLearn the learner is give the role of a middle school principal who must communicate digitally because injuries (broken legs) prevent him/her from going to the school. In Anytown, the learners are given the...
Week 8 – Understanding by Design & Group Design Project
The Understanding by Design framework, sometimes called Backwards Planning or Backwards Design, is not a model in that it doesn’t provide a practical methodology for implementation. However, it does provide guidelines to help the designer or educator focus their learning activities on the outcomes that are desired. That perspective...
Week 7 – Dick and Carey (and Carey?)
The most memorable discussion from our class this week was Reem Almazyad’s presentation of the Dick and Carey model of ISD. Again, I’m thinking that an “advanced” ISD model has more to do with what a designer is doing with the model than the model itself. The Dick and...
Week Six – How Instructional Design is Used
When I was first hired as a brand-new instructional designer, fresh out of graduate school, I worked for a company that developed training for management processes. Things like, proactive planning, rational decision making, root cause analysis, and so forth. I was part of a team that spent a lot...
Week Five in Advanced ISD
In our class on February 11, Jennie Johnson gave a presentation on the 4 Component Instructional Design (4C/ID) model that was developed by Jeroen van Merrienboer. I think this model is a good example of what we’ve been discussing all semester so far, an Advanced Instructional Design model. I...
The ISD Team
This week I pivoted from my original selection for an instructional design model. Initially I selected the 5E model because someone had mentioned it in our first class and I had never heard of it. I was looking forward to learning about something new! Later I found that it...
Theory of Communicative Action
In class this week we discussed communicative action. The theory is sound and reminded me somewhat of the theory of cognitive dissonance in that learning or understanding is mediated through communication. Learning continues through additional communicative acts. I find myself evaluating different kinds of communication and trying to determine...
Advanced ID – Week Two
I really liked the readings for this week. Well… to be honest, I really liked Impact of Technology and Theory On ID since 2000 by Warren, et. al. (2014). I had not been exposed to the Four Ages of Learning Technology (Winn, 2002). I found myself comparing my own...
Advanced Instructional Design
In my Advanced Instructional Design class this week we discussed what “advanced” instructional design is compared to “basic” instructional design. I’ve never really thought of it like that. I’ve been in this business for almost 18 years and it’s always been just instructional design. From the perspective of education...