Posts by Donna

Yes, that is indeed the title of this post, “Times New Roman is a guy in a brown suit.” Empathetic design, emotional design, empathy this, design that…for a good design and a good designer, there isn’t any real difference. One of the most fundamental purposes of design, like art, is the visual translation of a thought or emotion. I am a long-time freelance graphic designer, and have taught online graphic design courses...

Bates (2014) suggests that the ADDIE model is past its useful life, and has become inflexible. Perhaps in its initial, behaviorist-slanted, bureaucracy-heavy incarnation that is true, but there’s no other way to approach any complex human interaction or experience responsibly, reliably, and economically. Many professions use much the same process, with different names and foci, but following the same general method. Whether you’re...

Assignment 1A: Karen Maeers & Donna Baker In this exercise, we applied the Design Challenge to develop a tool designed to support learners in generating ideas that help them take intellectual risks in digital learning environments. Our method Before starting the challenge, we clarified the purpose and process together, including sharing reflections from past courses and experiences. What worked… The interview section helped us to...

Kirschner (2017) states that there is no scientific basis for the ideas that learners have an optimal learning style, that learners are aware of that particular style or there exists a reliable/valid way to determine that style, and that optimal learning is achieved when the learning style is matched to instruction. The idea of learning styles being categorical evaluations of how I—or anyone else learns—is unproven, a point on which I...

Contributors: Lorri Weaver, George Tam, May Bahador, Stu Reed, Donna Baker Introduction Both Clark (1994) and Kozma (1994) acknowledge that instructional methods and delivery of media must be aligned to facilitate learning. The debate is about the ability of more than one medium to support a selected instructional method, whether a given medium has capabilities that cannot be replicated by another medium, and whether or not the...