Week 4- Learning Design Authoring

In this lecture, Learning Design was introduced, as an alternative to instructional design.

A few basic components of a Learning Design involve

Tasks that learners have to do(symbolized by a square)

Resources that aid learners in their task (symbolized by a triangle)

and

Supports that occur from the teachers implementing it, also providing feedback (symbolized by a circle))

The need to design learning is to place the onus back to the learner , comparison of the old ptolemic view of the curriculum of ideas moving around task and activities, to that of the more dynamic copernican view of task and activities moving around the principal idea. It also provides and improvement over Instructional Design.

Instructional Design is introduced, with the acronym ADDIE, indicating different parts of Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation .

However, drawbacks of Instructional Design are stated, in which it:

- Assumes that all outcomes can be predetermined.

- Is rigid and sometimes takes too long to complete.

- Authenticity of analysis result hinges on the
appropriateness of the methods used and their applications.

- Hard to implement and are expensive.