Week 4 - Learnign Design Authoring And Technology Integration

In the designing of the learning process, many things must be taken into consideration. AS such, in this week lecture, we were introduced into the 3 main components namely tasks, resources and support.

Besides learning what these components are about, it is more important to learn the affordances of each individual component. How well does the selected component fit with the rest of the design, and as an entire design on its own, how well can it facilitate learning.

Whether or not activities shoudl revolve around ideas (Copernican View of Curriculum> or ideas should revolve around activities (Ptolemaic View of Curriculum), depends very much on the type of learning, or objectives.

For example, if the learning objectives was for the learner to be aware of technical knowledge such as machinery usage, the Ptolemaic view (in my opinion) would fit better as compared to the Copernican view as it is important for learners to be familiar with the activity.

On the other hand, as literal or subjective topics such as theoretical concepts are the main concerns of the learning objectives, a Copernica view on curriculum is relatively moee relevant.

As instructional Design passes the onus of learning to the learners, the design has also neglected other social factors such as pressures from multiple sources that might inevitably distract the learner from completing the tasks. As much as e-learning is self paced, if the tasks have be forestalled, it would render the entire learning process inefficient and useless.

Therefore, when designing learning, it is important to design the learning process and placing yourself in the shoes of the learner so as to obtauin the best learning design.