Point/Counterpoint with an academic and a practitioner: On Cammy Bean, certification, and instructional design
dr.curry @ March 26, 2008 # 9 Comments
I’ve had some people ask me to post some more of my thoughts on instructional design and certification. They were interested in the conversations Cammy Bean and I have had about those topics, and wondered where those conversations were going. Today Cammy e-mailed me, and she and I have been going back and […]
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Can’t we all just get along? Or the need for instructional design certification
dr.curry @ March 4, 2008 # 3 Comments
To say the last couple of weeks here at effectivedesign have been interesting is an understatement. First of all, I had been reading the posts at Cammy Bean’s Learning Visions blog, and had been linking to them on my weekly post of links. On my Links for 1-26-08 to 2-01-08 post, Cammy commented to […]
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Have we “Reclaimed” Instructional Design?
dr.curry @ February 19, 2008 # 6 Comments
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 to […]
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An immediately accessible instructional design education
dr.curry @ February 15, 2008 # 4 Comments
Cammy at Learning Visions asked me to whittle my list down more. As a former English teacher, I relish the thought of making my writing “tighter.” So while the purpose of my initial post on how to get an instructional design education without paying tuition was meant as a “here’s what you need to know,” […]
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How to get an Instructional Design education without paying tuition
dr.curry @ February 13, 2008 # 13 Comments
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 […]
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