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 […]
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 […]
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.
4.4 Case study no. 5: Riding out the storm
In this case study we return to the Botany students and their encounter with the use of the scientific method of enquiry into the phenomenon of apical dominance in plants. The results, you will remember, were not all that we hoped for in this think-band-do-for-yourself type of experiment. The encounter in most groups scored too […]