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And so my friends, we reach Number 20 in our journey of discovery around Instructional Design. That’s a month’s solid blogging, investigating one of the fundamental domains associated with our profession.
What have we learned? More of that anon, but for now I’m going to cover the the Seels and Glasgow Model in this E-Learning [...]

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And so my friends, we reach Number 20 in our journey of discovery around Instructional Design. That’s a month’s solid blogging, investigating one of the fundamental domains associated with our profession.
What have we learned? More of that anon, but for now I’m going to cover the the Seels and Glasgow Model in this E-Learning [...]

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In yesterday’s post, I looked at the ASSURE instructional design model, which was originally developed by Heinich et al in the 1990’s, and is now popularly and widely-used in both classroom and e-learning environments.
Given the ASSURE Model’s constructivist epistemology and successful implementation in early 21st Century educational contexts, you may be surprised to learn [...]

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In yesterday’s post, I looked at the ASSURE instructional design model, which was originally developed by Heinich et al in the 1990’s, and is now popularly and widely-used in both classroom and e-learning environments.
Given the ASSURE Model’s constructivist epistemology and successful implementation in early 21st Century educational contexts, you may be surprised to learn [...]

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It is critical to the instructional development process that designers understand what skills and knowledge learners need to bring to the instructional process.

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Here’s an unusual but potentially very useful instructional strategy, one that takes advantage of peoples’ need for resolution or for closure. The Zeigarnik effect states that people remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed ones.
Russian psychologies Bluma Zeigarnik first studied the phenomenon in the late 1920’s after her professor, Gestalt psychologist Kurt [...]

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Here’s an unusual but potentially very useful instructional strategy, one that takes advantage of peoples’ need for resolution or for closure. The Zeigarnik effect states that people remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed ones.
Russian psychologies Bluma Zeigarnik first studied the phenomenon in the late 1920’s after her professor, Gestalt psychologist Kurt [...]

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A programmer friend of mine sent me a link to the YouTube video below. In it, the presenter Charles Lewis who goes by the nom de rap The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) raps about the fundamentals of design coding for HTML websites and coding for search engine optimization.
You have to be impressed by [...]

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A programmer friend of mine sent me a link to the YouTube video below. In it, the presenter Charles Lewis who goes by the nom de rap The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) raps about the fundamentals of design coding for HTML websites and coding for search engine optimization.
You have to be impressed by [...]

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As discussed in a previous post, to assist in understanding the “parallel criteria” (1989, p.233) relationship between these test of rigour and the scientific terms for validity, Guba and Lincoln provide the following table (1981, p.104):
Table 1 Relationship between parallel criteria
Aspect
Scientific Term
Naturalistic Term
Truth Value
Internal Validity
Credibility
Applicability
External Validity
Fittingness/transferability
Consistency
Reliability
Dependability/auditability
Neutrality
Objectivity
Confirmability
When considering appropriate research designs to evaluate the effectiveness of [...]

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