Prospective Instructional Design: Establishing Conditions for Emergent Learning

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas S. Critchfield ◽  
Janet S. Twyman
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Emergent Learning ◽  
Current Instruction ◽  
Current Student ◽  
Emergent Knowledge

Instructional designers plan current student experiences that promote future competence. There is a wide agreement that current instruction should allow students to “go beyond the information given” by demonstrating novel understanding. Less clear is what instructional efforts yield what specific emergent knowledge. Under these conditions, emergent learning remains an untestable, and therefore unscientific, concept. We describe a framework that creates emergent learning in both novice and experienced learners, and in many academic subjects, specifying preconditions that will yield specific emergent learning outcomes, and thereby promoting a desirable level of prospective precision in the planning of future student competence.

A Place for Culture in Instructional Design

2014 ◽  
pp. 200-215
Author(s):  
Shabana Figueroa ◽  
Wanjira Kinuthia
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Adult Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Based Instruction

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the macro and micro challenges instructional designers face when designing Web-based instruction for adult learners. Macro level challenges like institutional and infrastructural requirements are those outside the design process that directly affect teaching and learning outcomes. Micro level challenges, on the other hand, are those inside the design process that directly impact teaching and learning outcomes (e.g. cultural biases of the designers and instructors). The authors discuss the effects of these challenges for instructional designers in higher education. Since the population of focus is adult learners, a brief overview of adult learning and characteristics of adult learners is provided. A variety of models and frameworks have been developed within the field, with only a handful that are constructed to explore diverse learners and learning. The chapter also includes introspection of the authors’ experiences as instructors, instructional design professionals, and students in the field. It concludes with strategies instructional designers can use to overcome the challenges discussed.

The wheel of fortune as a novel support for constructive alignment and transformative sustainability learning in higher education

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Noy ◽  
Teresa Capetola ◽  
Rebecca Patrick
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Education For Sustainability ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Constructive Alignment ◽  
Common Framework ◽  
Changing Times

Purpose Education for Sustainability in Higher Education (ESHE) sits within and across disciplinary settings that share the need for a framework that provides a basis for pedagogy, assessment and learning outcomes (Kalsoom, 2019). ESHE strives to create transformative learning spaces that help students gain the knowledge and skills they need to understand and contribute to shaping a world based on communities living within the limits of earth’s resources. This paper aims to offer a novel solution to the challenge of teaching students from different disciplines struggling with the complexity of sustainability. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores the development of an interdisciplinary subject designed for undergraduate students from four faculties. It presents a case study of pedagogy that moves away from three pillars/concentric circles approaches towards practices based in systems thinking and interactive transformative learning. It describes the iterative process of developing and implementing an infographic: the “Sustainability Wheel of Fortune” (Wheel), to support constructive alignment of content, assessment tasks and learning outcomes. Findings The Wheel provides a holistic, interconnected and dynamic focus for framing content and teaching. The pedagogy aligns with sustainability competencies, builds in flexibility in response to changing times and student experiences and provides teachers and students with a common framework for interrogating the possibilities for sustainable futures. Originality/value The Wheel is a novel learning tool for contemporary sustainability education. It captures key elements of approaches to and concepts about sustainability, visually reinforces the idea of a holistic interconnected approach and provides a framework that supports the constructive pedagogy of an interdisciplinary sustainability subject.

Outcomes-based approach to quality assessment and curriculum improvement in higher education

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen Tam
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Curriculum Improvement ◽  
Improving Student Learning ◽  
Views And Perceptions ◽  
Traditional Structures

Purpose – This paper was written for practitioners in higher education, including academics and instructional designers who are engaged in curriculum revision. It aims to examine the notion of outcomes-based education, survey the literature and provide a critical review of the outcomes-based approach to quality assessment and curriculum improvement in higher education. The outcomes-based approach is completely student-centred, which focuses on what students know and can actually do. Sharpening the focus onto student learning outcomes goes beyond mere tinkering with traditional structures and methods; it really constitutes a paradigm shift in educational philosophy and practice. Design/methodology/approach – This paper begins with a summary of developments in institutional quality assessment and curriculum improvement in higher education in recent decades. Then, it identifies the underlying concepts and principles that characterize the outcomes-based approach for the design and improvement of curriculum and instruction in higher education. Finally, the outcomes-based approach is critically reviewed for its value from the perspectives of both practical and philosophical considerations. Findings – In so doing, it is directed to the heightening of sensitivity as to the manner and situations in which the outcomes-based approach may be employed. Originality/value – A final note is that while learning outcomes approaches are useful, care is needed to take into account the different views and perceptions of those involved in defining learning outcomes and to keep the ultimate goal of improving student learning clearly in mind. Care must also be taken to avoid rigidity and conceptual reification during implementation in curriculum and instructional design.

scholarly journals Educational elements of instructional design to enhance the construction of virtual learning environments

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Nadia Sarahi URIBE-OLIVARES ◽  
Paul Rafael SIORDIA-MEDINA ◽  
Aldo ZEA-VERDÍN
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Virtual Learning Environments ◽  
Virtual Education ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Administrative Staff ◽  
Educational Model ◽  
Professional Profile

From the perspective of experts in instructional design, what pedagogical elements favor the construction of virtual learning environments? It is the question that guides the present investigation. Education has had significant changes in recent decades, so institutions would be expected to transform. The management of educational change must be carried out from within the institutions themselves, who, through the operability of their educational model, foster the learning of their students. The innovation elements of an institution involve the entire educational community. The pedagogical foundations must permeate the management team, teachers and administrative staff to achieve true educational quality in any educational modality. This research focuses on the particularities of the virtual modality. It aims to analyze the different perspectives of instructional designers of institutions of higher and higher education regarding what pedagogical elements are necessary in offering virtual education. It also analyzes the professional profile of those who exercise the role of instructional designer in the different institutions.

scholarly journals Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Learning Objects

10.28945/2913 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Reflective Learning ◽  
Learning Object ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
Practical Development ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Knowledge Objects ◽  
The Relationship

Briefly the objective of this presentation is to provide an overview of the origin of the concept and term of learning object in instructional design within the context of standardized, sharable, computer-based operations. Secondly, the philosophical foundations will be discussed mainly in terms of the framework of the crucial distinction between learning objects as mere external knowledge objects and the process of self-reflective learning that is needed to make the use of learning objects truly successful. Both the historical and philosophical foundations of learning objects will be treated in terms of the relationship between learning objects and learning subjects. The latter includes both instructional designers in the historical and practical development of learning objects, and the audience for which learning objects are intended to help educate. Particularly, historical and philosophical foundations should recognize the dual trajectory towards producing standardized small curricular units and at the same time affecting, educating and even transforming learners.

scholarly journals Science and math teachers as Instructional Designers: Linking ID to the ethic of caring

2008 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Rose ◽  
Kate Tingley
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Instructional Decisions ◽  
Design Activity ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Design Models ◽  
Math Teachers ◽  
Ethic Of Caring ◽  
Exploratory Inquiry ◽  
The Relationship

In this exploratory inquiry into the nature of the relationship between systematic instructional design models and teachers’ planning practices and needs, the researchers conducted open-ended interviews with six teachers of science and math in order to discover how they conceptualized and practiced instructional design. The most important finding to emerge from this research was that, from the teachers’ perspective, caring must be a central component of any instructional design activity. Regardless of gender and grades taught, the teachers indicated that they need to be able to make instructional decisions based upon their caring relationships with individual learners. Les enseignant de sciences et mathématiques comme concepteurs pédagogiques: relier l’identité et l'éthique de la sollicitude Résumé : Dans cette enquête exploratoire de la nature de la relation entre les modèles systématiques de conception pédagogique et les besoins ainsi que la pratique de planification des enseignants, les chercheures ont effectué des entrevues ouvertes avec six enseignants de sciences et mathématiques afin de découvrir leurs représentations et leurs pratiques de la conception pédagogique. Le résultat le plus important émergent de cette enquête a été que selon la perspective des enseignants, la sollicitude se doit d’être une des composantes centrales de n’importe quelle activité de conception pédagogique. Indépendamment du genre et du niveau d’enseignement, les enseignants ont indiqué qu’ils doivent être en mesure de pouvoir faire des décisions pédagogiques en fonction de leurs relations empathiques avec les apprenant individuels.

What do I take home after the simulation? The importance of emergent learning outcomes in clinical simulation

2021 ◽  
pp. 105186
Author(s):  
José Luis Díaz-Agea ◽  
Marina Manresa Parres ◽  
María José Pujalte-Jesús ◽  
María Belén Soto Castellón ◽  
Mario Aroca Lucas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Clinical Simulation ◽  
Emergent Learning

The Distance Education Phenomena

2015 ◽  
pp. 112-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline M. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Instructional Design ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Community Of Learners ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Comfort Zone ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Instructional Facilitator

The Instructional Design field has been significantly impacted by the distance education phenomena. With the strengthening of the distance education presence, more focus has been framed around concerns related to interactive activities that built upon the importance of communications and building relationships between the course information, the learners, the instructional facilitator, and the larger community wherein the information may be more fully framed. The vast and ever-expanding distance education phenomena is moving beyond the traditional “comfort zone” of procedural Instructional Design expectations, towards a more holistic and innovative thoughtful multimedia-supported design and development process wherein the Instructional Designers must be able to engage more fully in the socio-engagement of the learner within a multimedia-supported global community of learners. This chapter describes the developments of distance education from the perspective of instructional designers.

Intergenerational Learning Styles, Instructional Design Strategy, and Learning Efficacy

2020 ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
Michael G. Strawser ◽  
Renee Kaufmann
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Design Strategy ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Intergenerational Learning ◽  
Educational Design ◽  
Broad Base ◽  
Learning Efficacy

Instructional designers must appeal to a variety of audience members both in terms of competency and preferred learning style. Though many factors may influence learning style, generational preferences may provide instructional designers a broad base of understanding undergirding strategic educational design choices. While it would be naive, and even inaccurate, to assume that Millennials constitute the only unique generational challenge for instructional designers, their sheer presence in organizations and their education expectations have changed the game—so to speak. Thus, in an attempt to clarify generational uniqueness, this chapter will explore general generational instructional trends while positioning instructional design as a necessary answer to 21st century learning efficacy challenges.

Virtual and Augmented Reality

2019 ◽  
pp. 12-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liston William Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Instructional Design ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Common Elements ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Virtual And Augmented Reality ◽  
Instructional Design Practices

This chapter focuses on virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) as tools for teaching and learning. Attainment of skills and knowledge can be supported through the use of VR/AR applications that are being developed both in the commercial sector and at various research institutions. An overview of what differentiates VR and AR is provided to the reader along with considerations of how such applications might be used to support learning environments in the future. If instructional designers and programmers can synchronize their efforts it may be possible to make VA/AR a common feature across learning environments nationally. Common elements of a VR/AR system are discussed here as well as the need to incorporate instructional design practices into the design of learning applications that use VR/AR.

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