When I started taking graduate classes in Instructional Systems Technology (IST) last fall, we were told pretty early on, that IST is a subset of…
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How apropos. In last week’s post, I commented on how the chapter I was reading could do with an update to reflect educational changes as…
The readings for this week covered the history of instructional technology, and my first thought when I saw this on the syllabus was, “Didn’t we…
This may come as a surprise to some, but education, instruction, and learning aren’t synonyms of each other. Those concepts have quite a bit of…
In taking classes about education, I suppose it’s inevitable that I’ll read something that describes the classes I’ve been taking. Sort of a meta-education. Thus…
This week’s readings dealt with two different concepts of learning that arrived on the scene some time after behaviorism. These are cognitive theory and constructivism.…
Since starting work on my master’s degree, I’ve found myself thinking more and more about Second Life, the online virtual world that once seemed to…
Over the past several decades, from the post-World War 2 era until now, three major theories or concepts have been applied to education. This week…
As the title says, this week’s readings covered the instructional development process, but I’m not sure if the phrase fully captures what was written. “Designing…
I had hoped to write this third R511 blog this past weekend, but life intervened. The heat went out in my house on Saturday, so…