LTEC 5210 Instructional Systems Design I- Fall 2016

Part 1 What have you learned from analysis? When I first approached my client about this project, I was very excited and thought I understood what this client was wanting and what she was envisioning.  We had our first meeting and after gathering information, I was left with more questions than answers.  I thought maybe I had not controlled the flow of the first meeting in a way that would have been more beneficial to the both of us.  During my second meeting, my client seemed overwhelmed with the situation.  I left that meeting with a pile of old paper forms and documents and after analyzing the paper content, I was reminded of the black box diagram, where the designer is left to deduce the purpose of the black box by comparing the input (old course documents) with the output (what the instructor needs to happen).  What are you planning to do with it? By our third meeting and through back and forth emails, we seemed to be in agreement in the di...

How learning takes place Learning is ubiquitous. Some of us like to learn by experience while others learn through reading.   No matter our learning preference, the learning process is the same.   We learn when new information is transferred and stored in our memory and is organized in a meaningful way so that we can retrieve this information at a later time to be used for other tasks.   As Shuell stated, “learning is influenced by many factors from many sources, the learning process itself is constantly changing, both in nature and diversity, as it progresses” (Shuell, 1990). Some factors that influence how learning take place may include previous life experiences, social interactions, curiosity, challenges, feedback, practice, repetition, the environment, analysis, mentorship, and training, the learner’s age and the willingness to learn. There are different views on how learning takes place. Behaviorists focus their learning theory more on the design of the e...

For week 1 of our blog reflection, we were to go out into the world (e.g. grocery store, mall, etc.) and locate two examples of instructional design in which I, as a viewer/reader, was expected to learn something. Then I was to decide the goals of the instruction, how effective it was, and three things I learned.  The first instructional design example is of Scrubbing Bubbles.  While grocery shopping, I was in the cleaning aisle and it dawned on me that most of the cleaning supplies have instructions.  The goal of this content is to teach the user how to properly use this product in order to keep their toilets clean and stain free.  The instruction set comes with illustrated instructions and written instructions.  The illustrated instructions are that of three simple images that the user can easily look at and understand how to use this product.  The written instructions are simple, very well organized, and to the point. The second instructional ...