Jan Nedermeijer
19 April 2013
- A so-called `SME: or Subject Matter Expert, for helping course design thinking, is not always the one who knows most.
- Keep a ‘crazy ideas list’. It will help you in many subtle ways.
- Keep in mind what every sensitive teacher and designer intuitively keeps in mind: that each of us (Kiibler-Ross, 1981) has four quadrants in our make-up; the physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual. If we use the stimulus-response (S-R) paradigm without bearing this truth in mind, we will be using the paradigm in a mechanistic and invalid way. All four quadrants in any design decision must be respected and cared for. We ignore them, as designers, at our peril!
- If your design doesn’t work, don’t blame the student who is willing to learn. Blame yourself!
- Write ‘effective’, `valued’, liked’ and ‘efficient’ in your mind before you go to sleep tonight.
- Do you like curious reflections? If so you might like this one from Spike Milligan (1973): ‘A lot of learning can be a little thing’. It has a lot of relevance for the decision-making of course and lesson designers.
