I’ve written plenty of times about how much I admire Cammy Bean’s thinking (you must read her Learning Visions blog), but today she helped me out and she didn’t even mean to. So here’s to you, Cammy! You see, I’m preparing materials for my EDTC 5753: Introduction to Instructional Design course, and I’ve been interviewing [...]
In 1996, David Merrill and the ID2 Research Group published Reclaiming Instructional Design, a paper that “attempts to make clear [their] belief that instruction is a science and that instructional design is a technology founded in this science,” and they wanted “to identify some of the assumptions underlying the science-based technology of instructional design, and [...]
Well, yesterday Cammy has responded to my post on the disconnect between academic instructional design and practical instructional design. Subsequently, the last five hours or so has been interesting. First of all, I see that Stephen Downes has mentioned our conversation on OLD~Daily, and that has led to a number of comments on my blog [...]
I’ve had Cammy Bean’s posts running through my head all weekend. I’ve been mulling over the differences between what I teach my students that instructional design and design theory are and how we actually do it. Anyone involved with the field at all knows that there is a huge gap between the two. I remember [...]
I’ve never shied away from my adoration of Cammy Bean and her Learning Visions blog. If you don’t know who she is, she describes herself by saying: I’m Cammy Bean, the author of Learning Visions. My business card currently says “Manager of Instructional Design”, but I do a bit of everything. If you’re interested, read [...]