{"id":333,"date":"2021-11-20T17:20:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T01:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/?p=333"},"modified":"2021-11-20T17:21:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T01:21:16","slug":"lrnt-524-%e2%94%82selecting-design-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/lrnt-524-%e2%94%82selecting-design-models\/","title":{"rendered":"LRNT 524 \u2502Selecting Design Models"},"content":{"rendered":"

Design is a very new topic for me to explore so I\u2019ve used the questions provided to help guide my thoughts!<\/span><\/p>\n

What are some things to consider when selecting a design model?<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

When considering a design model such as ADDIE, I reflected that I find myself working primarily in the \u201cDIE\u201d (Develop, Implement, and Evaluate) aspects of the process. As such, I definitely feel uncomfortable \u201cgetting the ball rolling\u201d in the Analyzing and Designing phases. To paraphrase, it\u2019s made me feel like a builder with no blueprints!<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless of what design model is chosen, a theme that has arisen for me is the importance of understanding your learning environment\u2019s context. The who, what, where, why, when and how of your learning environment undoubtedly guides your design choices and can result in vastly different results even when using the same design models. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How do you make design decisions? What role do design models and innovation play in this process?<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Given my unfamiliarity with design in general, I definitely approach any design choices by reviewing what has been done previously and understanding why that was the case. That then creates an opportunity to ask if there any changes that could improve the learning environment. As much as I love the idea of big, disruptive, \u201cgame changing\u201d innovation, I think you can innovate in small ways too. I\u2019ve seen simple changes such as reordering of content or rewording alleviate frustrations in previous course offerings.<\/span><\/p>\n

The learning design is obviously critical to building a learning environment, but I know it\u2019s also a necessity to meet the needs other course stakeholders (program staff, registrar, laws, students) as well. This can sometimes be an additional challenge when you attempt to provide what you to believe is a best practice, but isn\u2019t possible in certain scenarios. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Are there any design models have you found especially useful when making design decisions?<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Given I have the pleasure of working at RRU as a Learning Technologist in addition to being a MALAT student, I\u2019ve had exposure to many aspects of the RRU\u2019s Learning Design Process<\/a>.<\/span> It closely resembles the ADDIE method, just phrased and organized to address some specifics to RRU. This is provides me a clear pathway and standards expected for design in courses. Interestingly you will still see vastly different courses throughout program areas because of their different contexts and needs. With that said, I\u2019m excited at the prospects of trying completely different design approaches through this course!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Design is a very new topic for me to explore so I\u2019ve used the questions provided to help guide my thoughts! What are some things to consider when selecting a design model? When considering a design model such as ADDIE, I reflected that I find myself working primarily in the \u201cDIE\u201d (Develop, Implement, and Evaluate) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt524"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}