Philip Duchastel (duchaste@fcae.acast.nova.edu)
Mon, 17 May 1999 10:33:41 -0400
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 10:33:41 -0400 From: Philip Duchastel <duchaste@fcae.acast.nova.edu> Subject: Discussion: Instructional Design in the Information Age
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Good day dear colleagues in instructional design (ID) and welcome to
this discussion!
I look forward to some interesting interchanges with all of you over the
next two weeks. This type of forum encourages open discussion of
out-of-the-box ideas and I encourage you all to not be bashful in
putting forth your opinions. You will see that I am far from bashful
myself.
Some issues and questions to start us off (in addition to the formal
discussion piece itself):
We are seeing a diversification of forms of education and approaches to
instruction - viz. online, just-in-time, distance education,
project-based, constructivist, etc.… The old traditional instructor-led
3-credit course is likely to take on a minority status. So how do we
design for this diversity? The traditional ID approach needs to be tuned
to the new realities of the cyberspace age. What's involved?
The fundamental basis of learning is interacting with information. The
core ID function is then to select and organize information so as to
engage the learner in that interaction. What is the difference between
information design and instructional design? None!
The two strong forms of cyberspace are web sites and virtual worlds. How
do we design with these in mind?
Why is it so hard to learn? Why is instruction (and hence instructional
design) needed? Why don't people just naturally learn? Is instruction
foul-tasting medicine for the mind?
Just what is it then that we design when we do ID?
I look forward to your thoughts.
Cordially,
Philip Duchastel, Ph.D.
http://www.nova.edu/~duchaste
954 / 262-8561 [office]
954 / 202-0230 [home]
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