Instructional Design: My First Journal Post
In January 2012, I started a small social media business in Kingston, Ontario. While there are many other facets to my business, including site design, ongoing maintenance, and strategy development, I...
View ArticleDo You Really Need Training?
It’s only been 10 days, and this course is deep into theory and rational of instructional design. This week one of the readings focused on the need for instruction and asks, “Why is instruction...
View ArticleWeek 3 – Journal
This week we are learning about learner context, which “makes the content concrete and realistic and helps the [learner] understand not only the search strategy, but also how it can be applied on the...
View ArticleConsider the Learners
Considering the Learners is the title of one of this week’s readings. Wait, that’s a novel idea… educators should consider their learners. While this seems like an obvious point, especially for those...
View ArticleLearning Objectives – Week 5
This week we’re learning how to develop concrete learning objectives as a starting point for our curriculum. Morrison et al. (2011) state “objectives are based on the results of the task analysis and...
View ArticleADED 4F33 – Curriculum Design – Week 6-10
It turns out that each week of ADED4F33, Curriculum Design, seamlessly flows into one another. Before I knew it we were entering Week 10 (and I hadn’t updated you since Week 6 – yikes!). Over the past...
View ArticleAdult Learning & Adult Education
The further I progress into the Adult Education at Brock University, the more I discover about myself and my personal traits. Knowles, who is one of the forefathers of andragogy, proposed six...
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