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 […]
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,” […]
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 […]
dr.curry @ February 11, 2008 # 20 Comments
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 […]
dr.curry @ October 10, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Well, here I am at AECT, and already I’m enjoying it. I must admit. I like “being a member of the club.” When I was in graduate school, our department chair at Utah State was Don Smellie, a former president of AECT. He used to tell us, “You’ve got to be […]
