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The first site provides you with insight from the professionals in the field across the country. It provides comments on resources and ideas to assist you in various areas within Instructional Design. It is good to have resources to refresh or awaken a new thought within you. The posts on these sites are very interesting and will help in the view points of others in the field and enable you to see the ideas of others. You may not agree with everything but that can still provide growth. http://www.iddblog.org/ As an Instructional Designer our minds must be toned to new ideas and be able to dream of new ways to keep the attention of the learner. In this fast pace world full of technology and information at every turn, the job of the Instructional Designer became harder. Our eyes send so much information to the brain that we are easily bored. In Cathy Moore’s blog, design takes on a new meaning. Noted that these are views, everyone can see the same picture yet walk away with a different view of the picture. That’s what I see on this site; see design in a different light. Everyone can get into dry place, where the thoughts are not coming as fast as we would like them. Sites like this one could help you awaken something new simply by seeing someone do something out of the ordinary. http://blog.cathy-moore.com/ There is a wealth of information on the internet; however some of them hold your attention better than other. The following site brought something to right to your face. http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/what-everybody-ought-to-know-about-instructional-design/ Did you know that we see everything before our eyes and yet we do not acknowledge some things at all? How often have you said to yourself or someone else that you did see what was right before you. This site demonstrated that we see what we are searching and often miss what is before our eyes. This type of information helps our creativity. As Instructional Designers we need to be productive for their clients as well as themselves. The video on this site show us how easily we can miss what is right before us. The above sites all offer something different; yet can be very helpful to the designer. This enter action would help a great deal for individual that work out of their homes and newcomers looking for help.
Monday, January 11, 2010
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Reviewing the blog by Cathy Moore,
ReplyDeleteMaking change enumerates interesting thought provoking ideas on instructional design. Creating lively course which motivate and engage the learner helping them learn is the dream of instructional designer. Traditional content heavy well constructed course offer very little to learning leading to long term memory. Often designers construct courses packed with information in an attempt to depart maximum facts and concepts in matter of fact fashion. Dressing up presentations with bells and bows may make it attractive but fail to deliver learning.
Readings on brain function, learning and cognitive information processing theory provide a better understanding of the learning process. Information processing requires attention, perception, encoding storage and retrieval. In put is more likely to be recognized if it resonates with prior established inputs. It is clear that information in short term memory is retained by rehearsal and transformed to long term memory by association and stored by encoding, elaborating and meaningful structures and retrieved when taped.
Research has shown that relevance and usefulness of information affects recall. (Ormrod, 2008., p 58) This information has led to innovative change in instructional design.
Cathy Moore in her blog offers alternative to traditional design using the above principles of learning. The instructional design focuses on what the learner needs to know; the goal. The aim is to provide solutions to a problem and not just information. The learner is guided to learn how and then why of things. Tools like media and activities are utilized to create learning environment. Gestalts theory shows well organized ideas are easy to learn and recall. The blue print, her design is well organized, simple, captures attention, engages the learner. The focus is on learning not teaching. Content is presented in a interactive meaningful manner thus creates desired behavioral