Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Some Insights



As my group has put together our project, I have realized a few things about instructional design:



  • Instructional design takes a lot of time
  • Instructional design takes a lot of planning
  • Asking questions is important
  • It's OK to use pre-existing materials and instruction in the instructional plan


In my opinion, asking questions in the most important thing an i. designer can do.



As i. designers ask questions they...


  • get the necessary information
  • understand the learners
  • find gaps in instruction plans
  • create new instruction ideas


2 comments:

Danny said...

Sometimes it seems like the time issue doesn't ever become less. I kept thinking that once we finished report 1 then the next one would be a little easier and take less time. The problem is that I think we learned to ask more questions and got deeper in the next one...it took more time and was harder to feel like we were "finished".

Brenda said...

Excellent! I also think that ID need to answer the questions. I thought it was interesting in class as we discussed how people notice problems and so many of us are so quick to say "It's not my problem" I guess that's one avenue for work. . . If we see a problem, ask questions, and then after analyzing. . .answer the questions.