LD Community Meeting – May 2012

RToday’s meeting was about perception and how it applies to Instructional Design.

Here is the TED talk by Rory Sutherland “Perspective is Everything”

Idea from the discussion: Does Control=Happiness? According to the video, this is true. How does this relate to how we design courses?

Reflection:
To me it is important to use theory and experience to design courses. Analytics are becoming more and more a part of the discussion. But do students always know what’s best for them. I think that many times student do not realize how important ideas that they learn are until later.

Idea from the discussion: How many options are we providing? We should control options thoughtfully.

Reflection:
This is a great point made by Kent Matsueda. We cannot inundate students with every permutation possible. We need to widdle down choices for students so they can choice from options that make sense for leaning.

Idea from the discussion: Art vs. science – there is no difference

Reflection: Brian Young made a comment that made me think about the relationship between art and science. In education, we always try to break everything down into compartments. But do ideas actually exist that way. The idea of techne was brought up by Jeff refering to how we cannot separate art from science and that the dissection is more of a Western idea.

Idea from the discussion: It is possible to control instruction not the learning

Reflection: There was a discussion started by Stevie Rocco on yammer within the ID community that revolved around this. I tend to agree with this. It affects the way that I design in that I want to put students in a position to have success, but many of the factors that lead to learning are out of my control.

I enjoyed the meeting and the opportunity to think about Instructional Design and look forward to the continued discussion at the Learning Design Summer Camp 2012.

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