An immediately accessible instructional design education
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An immediately accessible instructional design education.
dr.curry @ February 15, 2008
Bless you! Just what this non-doctor ordered.
John, this is near and dear to my heart (Don Norman was *my* PhD advisor). So I’m a fan of DOET, and van Merriënboer as well. I hadn’t looked at Dave’s first principles before, and it’s similar to my own integration, though I separate out concept presentation from examples (concept vs concept applied in context) which I’m not sure he accommodates.
This is a very good list, if you’ve gotta have four, though I really like Carroll’s Minimalist stuff, and I might feel an obligation to include Cognitive Apprenticeship (I find it a better model for design, though it’s my own ‘improved’ version ;). I suspect I consequently might replace Gagne’ (heresy, I know…).
And I really like Driscoll on learning theory. So, my own top four might be Driscoll (not ID, but you need to know this stuff), Cog App, Carroll, & Norman (hey, it’s not ID either).
This is great. I’ve been looking for this kind of advice for years. All my expertise comes from applying ideas I’ve acquired from experts, who must know this and more, but whose unconscious competence is high and so concealed.
I’ll start reading, but I challenge your expert audience: create an application exercise that use principles from any of the recommended books, or one that you consider an essential source, so that those of us with learn-by-doing bent can practice stretching ourselves.
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