SDoI: Chapter 2: Assessing needs to identify instructional goal(s)
[This is the third in a series of posts about Dick and Carey’s The Systematic Design of Instruction. Want to read an overview and my thoughts on Chapter 1 before proceeding?] This chapter is mainly about writing goals for instruction. However, before getting too excited about designing instruction, Note that while an instructional designer may […]
SDoI: Chapter 1: Introduction to Instructional Design
I’m working my way through The Systematic Design of Instruction (SDoI), 4th ed., by Dick and Carey, and here are my thoughts on Chapter 1: Introduction to Instructional Design. (You may get the impression from this post that I’m disagreeing with what the book says, but for the most part, I’m not. I’m just not […]
The systematic design of instruction
I’ve been working as part of an instructional design team for almost two years now, and I haven’t read The Systematic Design of Instruction by Dick and Carey. (Don’t laugh!) It’s time to correct that. I came to instructional design not from an education background, but from applied linguistics and teaching English as a second […]
Push the BigBlueButton
When I try a web-conferencing product, I expect to find myself in a sterile demo room – alone and left to my own devices. When I tried BigBlueButton, I was momentarily confused. Many people were in the demo room. They were talking, text-chatting, pointing at slides – and one of the developers, Fred Dixon, starting […]