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?’

2.1 Introduction

A glass jar stands on my desk. It is labelled ‘Think Tank’ and contains a piece of white cotton wool. From time to time it makes an excursion with me to a three-thy workshop for teachers on the subject of design decision-making at activity 4 of the course and lesson design process described in this […]

Foreword Tony Earl

One of the greatest gifts each of us has is our intuition. This book is about the combination of intuition, creativity and logical thinking in solving one of the trickiest problems in the development of successful courses and lessons: the problem of making an optimum choice of design for the instruction that is to be […]

Acknowledgements Tony Earl

In putting together the ideas in this book, I have enjoyed the encouragement and support of the Department of Research and Development in Higher Education at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. In writing the book my special thanks must go to a colleague — Ans Ronduite. Without the special quality of her critique […]