6. Review and Exercises
2.2 What might this ‘something’ be?
The help which is offered to teachers and designers in the Think Tank workshop involves the use of four decision-making aids. The aids, or referents as I would prefer to call them (because of how they function), are shown in Fig. 3.
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 […]
1.5 Is there a special language of design?
The answer to this, for design decision-making at the micro level, is ‘yes’.
1.8 Case study no. 1: The design of an educational encounter
Here is our first case study. It describes the designing of an educational visit to a doctor and to a patient at home. The substance of the story is from an article (Earl, Everwijn and de Melker, 1980) in Medical Education. It will introduce you step by step to the activities illustrated in Fig. 1. […]