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12 Helpful Resources for Instructional Design

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Instructional design is the thoughtful application of design aspects — like color theory, typography, and user experience — to create educational resources. Guide to e-Learning: Building Interactive, Fun, and Effective Learning Programs for Any Company (by Michael Allen) . Plus learn more about Luke Hobson’s podcast below).

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Cognitive Flexibility Theory & Multiple Representations

Learning Visions

Wednesday, May 09, 2007 Cognitive Flexibility Theory & Multiple Representations After reading Clarks comment on my posting from yesterday , Ive been looking into Cognitive Flexibility Theory (Spiro), trying to better understand the notion of "multiple representations." (You Makes sense. Getting an Informal M.Ed United States License.

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Bear pit pedagogy

Learning with e's

In other words, we enable digital and physical learning spaces in which they can freely explore ideas, argue with each other (and us) over concepts and theories and in so doing, develop their reasoning and thinking skills. In order to develop key critical thinking skills, learners need to be able to argue effectively. Unported License.

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Blogging: Five of the best

Learning with e's

Blogging has always been one of the ways I best express my ideas, and coupled with teaching, public speaking and a number of interviews on video and through podcasting, it has been my main channel of communication and dialogue with my professional community in recent years. 2005) Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity.

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A convenient untruth

Learning with e's

For me, the worst enemy is bad theory. Bad theory, when accepted without challenge, can lead to bad practice. It's insidious, because bad theory that is accepted as fact without a full understanding of its implications, results in bad teaching, and ultimately, learners will suffer. Riener and Willingham again: ".learning-styles

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Content creation

Learning with e's

If you subscribe to constructivist theories of learning, you will understand why the creation of content is important in any context. Artefacts are a material outworking of knowledge creation, and according to Vygotsky , they can be aids to solving problems that could not be solved as effectively in their absence. Unported License.

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Learning by making

Learning with e's

Whilst these approaches to learning are often more effective for personalised and collaborative learning, they tend to be kept to a minimum in most cases, because teachers like to maintain some level of control over their students, and finite time and resources constrain them. These are essential skills for 21st Century working.