IKEA
Six months after the well-hyped grand opening I made my first visit to IKEA. I had heard many good things (and nothing negative) about IKEA from a variety of sources. The reason that I didn’t go to IKEA before was…
Tag design
Creativity and Culture
I enjoyed Rovy’s little rant. I agree that the lack of creativity is not rooted in the ISD process, but rather it is rooted in the lack of a design culture among LPs. We are taught how to develop things…
Good Catch
I do not think this little fact can ever be overemphasized: Learning Theory Does NOT = Instructional Design Theory. The minute we confuse our prescriptive theories with the descriptive theories upon which they are based it becomes impossible to accurately…
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…
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…
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…
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…