LRNT 523

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...

How time flies! A couple of weeks ago I tweeted about an article I read describing the need/shortage of learning architects and engineers. I find the concept of engineers and architects within the learning realm fascinating. In response to my tweet, George V. tweeted, “to consider in relation to Reiser’s reading: what r the differences between learning architect, engineer, designer? What does each value?” Herewith is my...

Post Co-Authored by Lorri Weaver and Donna Baker At a time when “we are witnessing a fundamental change in the production of knowledge and our relationship to content (Weller, 2011, p. 232), exploring content available online and determining how it could be used by a learner or instructor is critical to instructional designers. With this in mind, we chose the topic of photography in low light situations to investigate and determine if...

Click to view video:  Transcript of video This is my Assignment 1 for LRNT523. I am sharing a couple of related resources today. One is information about a blog post I found on alternatives to talking head videos, which you can read in my blog post here… …and the second is a show-and-tell about using Adobe Character Animator to simulate a talking head. In this case, my head. The process is not plug-and-play, or drag-and-drop, or...

I facilitate a number of InDesign and Acrobat courses through the ed2go system. The courses are highly formalized in terms of structure, content, and delivery method, applying the simplification and standardization techniques described by Ertmer and Newby (2013). The authors state, “…knowledge can be analyzed, decomposed, and simplified into basic building blocks. Knowledge transfer is expedited if irrelevant information is...