Learning: Design, Engagement and Definition

Learning: Design, Engagement and Definition
Author: Brad Hokanson
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2022-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030850781

This book examines the topic of learning design from a human, interactive, and collaborative perspective. A variety of pedagogic and instructional modalities are thoroughly investigated as methodologies for creating functional and effective designs for students. The book is appropriate for all levels of teaching and learning, but special attention is paid to the special requirement of higher education, graduate education and post-graduate classrooms. Within the research chapters are embedded numerous examples, case studies, and implementation guides. The book is a scholarly yet practical guide to learning design and everyone from educational researchers in all areas of educational technology to instructional designers and instructional technologists will find it useful and inspiring at once.

Understanding by Design

Understanding by Design
Author: Grant P. Wiggins
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1416600353

What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.

Intersections Across Disciplines

Intersections Across Disciplines
Author: Brad Hokanson
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-12-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030538753

This volume is the result of the annual Summer research symposium sponsored by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). The twenty-two chapters in this volume seek to examine how learning and the design of instruction is interdisciplinary and connective in terms of research and practice. The book is generally divided into three areas: Theory, Research, and Application. This framework shaped the authors’ interactions, discussions, and the informal context of the symposium. Writings are included on multiple levels including research and practice on learning across disciplines, including instructional design and how design thinking is inherently interdisciplinary. How learning is designed for general audiences or for purposely integrated educational experiences has also been examined.

Evaluative Practice in Learning, Design, and Technology

Evaluative Practice in Learning, Design, and Technology
Author: Lauren M. Bagdy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2024-10-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1040144853

Evaluative Practice in Learning, Design, and Technology provides learning, design, and technology stakeholders with comprehensive resources intended to support their engagement in evaluative activities. Evaluation—the process that determines whether performance results have been achieved and meet expectations within an organization—is an important step in the instructional design process. However, the field’s current literature is largely missing coverage of influential contextual factors and evidence-based techniques. This book presents a thorough overview of the theoretical foundations that influence evaluation practices, identifies and distinguishes between numerous evaluative methods, and emphasizes the decision-making skills required of those leading and implementing evaluation. Graduate students and professionals will be better prepared to meet the expectation of competency in formative, summative, and program evaluations.

The Design of Learning Experience

The Design of Learning Experience
Author: Brad Hokanson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2015-07-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319165046

This book delves into two divergent, yet parallel themes; first is an examination of how educators can design the experiences of learning, with a focus on the learner and the end results of education; and second, how educators learn to design educational products, processes and experiences. The book seeks to understand how to design how learning occurs, both in the instructional design studio and as learning occurs throughout the world. This will change the area's semantics; at a deeper level, it will change its orientation from instructors and information to learners; and it will change how educators take advantage of new and old technologies. This book is the result of a research symposium sponsored by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology [AECT].

Learning, Design, and Technology

Learning, Design, and Technology
Author: J. Michael Spector
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 4144
Release: 2023-11-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319174614

The multiple, related fields encompassed by this Major Reference Work represent a convergence of issues and topics germane to the rapidly changing segments of knowledge and practice in educational communications and technology at all levels and around the globe. There is no other comparable work that is designed not only to gather vital, current, and evolving information and understandings in these knowledge segments but also to be updated on a continuing basis in order to keep pace with the rapid changes taking place in the relevant fields. The Handbook is composed of substantive (5,000 to 15,000 words), peer-reviewed entries that examine and explicate seminal facets of learning theory, research, and practice. It provides a broad range of relevant topics, including significant developments as well as innovative uses of technology that promote learning, performance, and instruction. This work is aimed at researchers, designers, developers, instructors, and other professional practitioners.

Optimizing Instructional Design Methods in Higher Education

Optimizing Instructional Design Methods in Higher Education
Author: Vovides, Yianna
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2018-11-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1522549765

Higher learning has seen an increase in web-based distance education programs, which coincides with advancements made in educational technologies. As these programs are on the rise, it becomes increasingly more important to ensure that instructional designers are prepared to accommodate the needs of these academic institutions. Developing a culture of collaboration through the optimization of instructional design methods is part of the profession’s identity but has gotten overshadowed by the pressures of thinking of courses as products. Optimizing Instructional Design Methods in Higher Education is an essential reference source that discusses the importance of collaboration, training, and the use of new and existing models in supporting instructional designers to formalize and optimize curriculum development in higher education. It covers the importance of adapting, adjusting, and re-evaluating models based on learner needs in relation to both the process of learning and outcomes. Featuring research on topics such as human resource development, academic programs, and faculty development, this book is ideally designed for educators, academicians, researchers, and administrators seeking coverage to support design thinking and innovation that encourages student learning.

Design Research on Learning and Thinking in Educational Settings

Design Research on Learning and Thinking in Educational Settings
Author: David Dai
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2012-04-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113695631X

The key question this book addresses is how to identify and create optimal conditions for the kind of learning and development that is especially important for effectively functioning in the 21st century. Taking a new approach to this long-debated issue, it looks at how a design research-based science of learning (with its practical models and related design research) can provide insights and integrated models of how human beings actually function and grow in the social dynamics of educational settings with all their affordances and constraints. More specifically: How can specific domains or subject matters be taught for broad intellectual development? How can technology be integrated in enhancing human functioning? How can the social organization of classroom learning be optimized to create social norms for promoting deep intellectual engagement and personal growth? Part I is concerned with broad conceptual and technical issues regarding cultivating intellectual potential, with a focus on how design research might fill in an important a niche in addressing these issues. Part II presents specific design work in terms of design principles, models, and prototypes.

Mobile Learning Design

Mobile Learning Design
Author: Daniel Churchill
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2015-12-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811000271

This book focuses on mobile learning design from both theoretical and practical perspectives. It introduces and discusses how mobile learning can be effectively integrated into curricula, highlighting the design of four key components of learning-centric pedagogy: Resource, Activity, Support and Evaluation in the context of mobile learning. It also investigates the learning theories underpinning mobile learning design, and includes case studies in different contexts. It provides practical insights that allow teachers to change and transform teaching practices using mobile technology. Anyone involved in mobile-technology enhanced learning and teaching will find this book both informative and useful.

Beginner’s Guide to Instructional Design

Beginner’s Guide to Instructional Design
Author: Purnima
Publisher: BPB Publications
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2022-03-25
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9355510772

Applying instructional design principles to serve content just right! KEY FEATURES ● Covers concepts and methodologies for determining the learning objectives, study content, and the mode of delivery. ● Exclusive coverage of best practices for designing education and workplace training material. ● Includes strategies for designing and delivering online and classroom learning content. DESCRIPTION This book aims to give instructional designers a better understanding of how learning science can be used in their work. Four real-world case studies illustrate educational needs and the associated solution, bridging theory and practice. Professionals can use the book's templates and formats to create job aids, virtual training, and online learning storyboards. The prominent ADDIE methodology for instructional material development is used throughout the book. The ADDIE model's phases are taught and demonstrated using a variety of real-world scenarios. Gagne's Events of Instruction, Kolb's Experiential Model, and Merrill's Principles of Learning are just a few of the foundational frameworks thoroughly presented with the examples. This book provides examples to show assessment strategies for verifying declarative knowledge and assessment tools for evaluating procedural knowledge. Information about authoring tools,LMSs and LXPs are also covered. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Create synchronous and asynchronous online learning resources. ● Acquire familiarity with authoring tools and learning management systems. ● Conduct a job analysis to identify skill development and workplace learning opportunities. ● Examine the audience profile for educational, professional, and performance objectives. ● Assemble lesson plans for online training sessions. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is intended for traditional educators, academics, corporate trainers, and instructional designers who wish to improve their knowledge of modern teaching techniques and give their audience a methodical and dynamic learning experience. The book is accessible to everybody, making no assumptions about the reader's past knowledge. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Understanding Instructional Design 2. Analyzing Learning Needs 3. Designing the Outline 4. Defining learning outcomes 5. Designing Instructional Material 6. Developing Instructional Material 7. Delivery Strategies 8. Assessment Strategies 9. Case Studies