الاثنين، 23 يناير 2017

Week 1 Reflections

            In the previous post, I had explained the definition of instructional design and its components. In this post, more details will be presented and discussed related to prior two courses that I completed in Fall 2016. The two courses  are named A and B instead of their  real name. In fact, The course A was more effective and relevant to our practice in the arena of education more than the course B. 
       As mentioned earlier, the main goal of ID is to make the learning process more efficient, effective and easy. Through my experiment with two courses, I found that the course A Instructor had worked to meet this goal. In contrast, the course B in many parts was ambiguous. To be more precise, instructional design objectives should be written clearly and include the condition of SMART model or the other model ABCDS, which is suggested by the instructor of the current course (ID course). However, in course A it is clear to know what the learner would be able to know, this point is missed or in some time written in general in the weekly plan paper in the course B. Another critical point to make the learning effective, it is necessary to explain the problem that needs to solve, because this will make the learner more enthusiastic to learn and then engage him in the activities during the lecture. In the course A the tools which were used to solve the problem is divers while it is limited in the course B. 
            The kinds of information is an important factor in instructional design. The ID designer should pay attention to the kinds of information and knowledge and the learners (audience). Three conditions should be in the information. Accurate, a complete, and appropriate to the learners. This mean, in another way, that from the first stage of instructional design to the evaluation stage an information is a critical factor in instructional design. This is the responsibility of the subject-matter expert when he prepared the content for the instructional design. For instance, in the course  (A) the instructor considered the content that is appropriate to the level of the learner and their skills. Through the course B, some time the content is not design to the level of the learner and their experience and it seems that it is designed for another field such as business. Although the content is not relevant to the field of learners, but the instructor in course B worked hard to adapt it to the education field and also support that by engaging the learners to share their experience related to the topic in order to transfer the theory to the practical aspect.
          If we apply this point of the ADDIE model, the first stage is analyzing  the learners need to choose the appropriate information. In addition, to understand what is already the learners know and what they need, should, and nice to know.
       The second phase is  Designing  learning objectives to adapt the information in suitable style. Then, developing the strategies, activities, and media to deliver the course content. The implementation phase focuses on ensuring that all the components are going in an effective way. The last stage is evaluated, it focuses on evaluating what, how, when, and why related to the instructional design.




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