Don Morrision: What Do Instructional Designers Design?
Don Morrision: What Do Instructional Designers Design?
I really enjoyed reading Don's presentation on the above topic. He touches many aspects of ID, like sequencing, that rarely get analyzed. Here's an anecdote from the article that I will be using often: Back in the 60s, French director, Jon-Luc Goddard was sitting on a panel of film luminaries at some or other film festival. A film critic on the panel felt obliged to defend traditional film narrative in the face of an onslaught by the French Nouvelle Vague, "Surely, Mr. Goddard", opined the critic, "A film needs a beginning, a middle and an end."
Pausing only long enough to flick the accumulated ash from his Gauloise, Goddard retorted, "... naturally I think a film should have a beginning, middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order."
This article is filled with such refreshing insights, including why Google is the best learning tool ever, and why ideas are more important in ID than the straight jacket fill-in-the-ADDIE-model process.
Note: Zip file (600Kb).
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