Subject: Re: IFETS-DISCUSS Digest - 10 Feb 2000 to 11 Feb 2000
From: Anita Pincas (teedapi@ioe.ac.uk)
Date: Sat 12 Feb 2000 - 11:29:38 MET
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 10:29:38 +0000 From: Anita Pincas <teedapi@ioe.ac.uk> Subject: Re: IFETS-DISCUSS Digest - 10 Feb 2000 to 11 Feb 2000
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I would like to comment on Dr. Quinn's remarks about instructional design.
After dealing with learning objects, he comments:
"If the objects are small enough, and instructional experiences are
composed of these objects, then different learners can have different
instructional experiences."
After referring briefly to problem based learning, he says:
"It seemed clear that one way I could support learners in determining
their preferred learning path was to break material up along the lines of the
role in the instructional process, and allow learners flexibility (while
preserving a lifeline of a default path that followed a safe and standard
approach). That led me to propose that instruction is composed [of] the
following components: Introduction, Concept, Example, Practice, and
Reflection."
My comments are:
a. I find that too many educators attempting to exploit the internet for
teaching start with materials instead of with instructional design, or
pedagogy, and then ask themselves this kind of question: Having got the
materials (ie the learning objects), how do I manipulate them for teaching?
In my own virtual teaching, I have started from pedagogy. I consider the
development of materials secondary.
b. The pedagogy I start with is that learner collaboration will solve a lot
of the problems of managing learning, and this is what the internet can
really foster, even more than face to face encounters.
In contrast, Dr. Quinn's approach would seem to me to assume an isolated,
individual, learner.
c. On the virtual course that I run to initiate educators into online
education, where there are people from all over the world, I am constantly
disappointed to find that they want a quick, easy, solution to their
questions about instructional design. The history of education is an
endless search for this.
Anita Pincas
Senior Lecturer in Education,
Institute of Education, University of London,
Course Director for
Certificate in Online Education & Training (online)
MA in English Teaching (online)
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