5. Installation and end evaluation

5.1 Introduction

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 event is the moment of truth. Its result will tell you how successful you have been as a designer in thinking up, working out, testing-and-revising and installing your worked-out design.

5.2. Installation
5.3 On-the-spot designing
5.4 End evaluation
5.5 Case study no. 6
5.6 Experiencing a ‘design’

5.2 Installation

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. Continue reading 5.2 Installation

5.3 On-the-spot designing

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 environment’ for learning. If your decision-making has been good in creating this environment there is a good chance that it will have success. Your students will learn and will learn in a way that they like. Continue reading 5.3 On-the-spot designing

5.4 End evaluation

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 always a moment of truth. You will be surprised (sometimes pleasantly and some-times not so pleasantly) at what you see. Continue reading 5.4 End evaluation

5.5 Case study no. 6: Troubleshooting refrigeration systems

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 branch managers about ‘poor freezer maintenance service’. There is a pattern in the complaints which come from different areas in the state. Continue reading 5.5 Case study no. 6: Troubleshooting refrigeration systems

5.6 ‘Experiencing’ a design

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 at the end of the lesson. Continue reading 5.6 ‘Experiencing’ a design