Instructional Design Course

• Cognitive Load Theory
• A Four Step Process
• Sizing Up the Learner
• Stating the Outcome
• Making it Happen
  • Readings
  • Tools for Richer Learning
  • Activities
  • Self Check
• Knowing What the Learner Knows
• Case Studies
• Home

Tools for Richer Learning

Full chapter text

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Two articles from a Colorado ID

Attention to aesthetics is important!

Aesthetic Principles

Design as Storytelling

Ever heard of Dale's Cone of Experience?

This is one of those widely known design ideas. Unfortunately there is NO research that verifies this. Some researchers have gone in circles trying to find the roots of the study with percentages of learning from hearing, seeing, or doing. The problem is, there are NO studies behind those data.

Instructional strategies 1

See 998 instructional strategies

Instructional strategies 2

Even more instructional strategies

Higher-order learning and Reflection

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Second Life

This is a fun new approach to instructional strategies

The story continues ...

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See Estevan's Design Document

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See Estevan's Second Prototype

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