Ausubel, D.P. and Robinson, Floyd, G. (1969) School Learning: An Introduction to Educational Psychology. Holt, Reinhart and Winston Inc. New York. Bruner, Jerome S. (1962) Toward a Theory of Instruction. Harvard University Press. Earl, F. A. (1973) The Four Referents….
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The training material was prepared in the Proyek Tata Guna Air (PTGA) or Water Users Training Project (WUTP). Ministry of  Public Works, Department Irrigation 2, Jakarta, Indonesia, 1986. by. F.A. Earl Click here to start with the self-study book. Tony…
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It’s time to close the circle, and say something about the last two activities in the course design activities cycle: the installation of the course or lesson in the learner’s programme, and the end evaluation of the design. This latter…
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Once a course or lesson has been tested and revised, it is ready for installation (activity 5, Fig. 1) in the system to which it belongs.
Once a course or lesson has been installed and is in process, the design takes over. Students and teacher (if there is one) and materials and the design rock back and forth and interact with each other in a ‘response…
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Once a course or lesson you have designed is over, you will need to look into the mirror of an end evaluation (activity 1). You will need to validate the quality of your own design decision-making. This end evaluation is…
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The usual long, hot summer. In Townville, Illinois, manager Joseph D Doe of the Buy-It-Here supermarket chain is getting hot under the collar. For the sixth time in three days he is listening to another complaint from one of his…
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A physics teacher is using vivid analogies in her lesson on the subject of `sound and silence’. The analogies are understood by all except two of her students. The two are wanting and willing to learn. Both fail a test…
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Every freshly made course or lesson is unique. It carries the fingerprint of its designer’s design decision-making. The last convolutions in the print come from decisions made as you test-and-revise (activity 4.3) a thought-up, worked-out design. The test is made…
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