3.1 Introduction
‘What is the difference between the mental gymnastics of thinking up a design and the mental gymnastics of working out a design?’
1.1 Introduction
1.1 Introduction What does a designer of instruction do? What is a design? Where does the design process at the micro level begin and end? Is there a special language of design? What is a ‘learning experience?’ How does a designer know when she or he has success? 1.2 What does a designer of instruction […]
1.3 What is design?
The formal definition of the term ‘design’ as it will be used in this book, and as it applies at the micro level, is: The plan, structure and strategy of instruction used, conceived so as to produce learning experiences that lead to pre-specified learning goals.
1.4 Where does the ‘design process’ begin and end?
The activities involved in designing a course or lesson are illustrated in Fig. 1. By name, they will be quite familiar to those of you who know and have used the so-called ‘systems approach’ at the micro level. Activity 4 in the activity cycle (Fig. 1) is the one which interests us most in this […]