Really? Great?
This is slightly off the path of the original discussion, but when Rovy said “it would be great to have adaptive, exploratory, multi-path instruction for everything we have to learn” it got me thinking. Would it be so great. Rovy…
Category Education
Design vs Procedure
I think that Alan has perfectly illustrated the difference between a “design formula” – ADDIE in this case – and real design. It is not that ADDIE is not good design, but if you A then D then D then…
Notes
Stephen Downes just posted an intro with a link to the powerpoint files for his keynote address at the Instructional Technology Institute. This will tell you what I heard when I thought what I posted in Thoughts Raised by Giants.…
ITI Conclusion
The conference was very good from my perspective. I have requested (on my evaluation form) that they should post lecture notes or powerpoint presentations so that I could review sessions I went to or get some information on sessions I…
Problems with CSCL Development
Paul Kirschner is exactly right in saying that providing for good group work or good online collaboration is not the same as ensuring good group work or ensuring good online collaboration. I also liked his point that developers most often…
Biology as an Inspiration for Instruction
It is not new to approach a human problem by looking a natural phenomenon to find ideas. We have heard of the cockle-bur inspiring the invention of Velcro. Erin Brewer has looked to biology to find some interesting ideas on…
MIT Open Courseware
With the pioneering efforts of MIT’s Open Courseware initiative it will be interesting to see what happens to academic conversation as various universities publish their courses openly – which MIT hopes they will do and which some are starting to…
Instructional Technology Institute USU
I am attending the instructional technology institute this week and I will be blogging things that I think during sessions. This will not be notes on the sessions so much as thoughts elicited by sessions.
A Start at a Notation System for Instructional Design
The IMS machine readable notation system – part of IMS LD – could be the basis of a notation system for instructional design which allows us to talk about instruction. We would need to have it become human readable before…
Instructional Design as a Conversation
I read a copy of this presentation from when Andy Gibbons gave it in Orlando in June 2004. Being in a live session was interesting as one of the participants in the session suggested that the trial and error method…