Learning that is designed to incorporate active, cumulative, and responsive elements results in deep learning. Steeples, Jones, and Goodyear (2002) advocate that instructional designers need to understand that learners need to be active. What learners actually do is a cornerstone of good design. Interestingly, they make a distinction between ‘task’ and ‘activity’. Tasks are the [...]
What is the difference between learning design and instructional design? There doesn’t seem to be an agreed upon distinction between instructional design and learning design. Dr. Matthew Fox in his paper entitled Learning Design in e-Learning (http://www.dokeos.com/doc/thirdparty/Epic_Whtp_learningdesign.pdf) wrote, We call it learning design (LD). Others talk of interactive design, instructional design, learning models or interactive [...]
What do I hope to accomplish by taking a course in Instructional Design? By the end of the course I hope that I have a clear strategy of using my knowledge, resources, and experiences of successful learning in a traditional sense and adapting this to effective online instruction and e-learning. I know that this will [...]