Week 1: Overview
Welcome to FLO Design! Each week's Overview book provides some insights into theory and practice.
Week 1 is about getting started - choosing and defining your Design Project - and in recalling or discovering some of the essential theories or concepts about how people learn.
Selecting / Defining Your Design Project
If you can't recall what the Design Project is, please review the description in the Course Handbook - Design Project.
Many of us begin with a task or intention to develop a course, but we don't have a clear idea of the answers to the seven questions: who, what, where, when, why, how, and how much?
To help you get started, we ask you to develop a mission (purpose) statement and be able to share it with others (initially through a paired interview activity). You'll find out more about the Interview activity from your FLO Design facilitators as you begin; you'll also find templates for developing your mission statement or structuring your interview in the Design Projects Documents folder.
How People Learn
This week's focus is both practical and theoretical - it is helpful to understand some of the learning theories and related models or frameworks that can guide your design choices. This book presents some key ideas and a list of references if you choose to go further.Some Definitions
educational design: any design activities that are intended to support learning; we use the term to include both instructional design and learning design. Note: these terms became widely used as more education was delivered with or supported by digital technologies and cloud-based tools.
instructional design: a systematic approach to using what we know about how people learn to guide the selection of instructional strategies or processes to help learners succeed in achieving learning outcomes. In current educational contexts, this also involves the judicious selection and use of technological tools and environments.
learning designer: a more recent term, it indicates an emphasis on the learner and a focus on the learner experience rather than instructional tasks.
learning design:
instructional design:
Learn more
If you'd like to learn more about how people learn, and the impact of connectivity and technology on learning, the following is a selected list of books, videos and podcasts you may find useful.
Books
Ambrose, S. A., Bridges, M. W., DiPietro, M., Lovett, M. C., & Norman, M. K. (2010). The Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series.How learning works: Seven research-based principles for smart teaching. Jossey-Bass. Bates,
A. Tony (2019) Teaching in a Digital Age, Second Edition, retrieved from https://www.tonybates.ca/teaching-in-a-digital-age/
Bransford, John D., et al, (editors), Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning, National Academies of Sciences (2000). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School, retrieved from https://www.nap.edu/catalog/9853/how-people-learn-brain-mind-experience-and-school-expanded-edition
Brown, P. C., Roediger, H. L. III, & McDaniel, M. A. (2014). Make it stick: The science of successful learning. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Dirksen, J. (2016). Design for how people learn. San Francisco: New Riders.
Harasim, L. M. (2017). Learning theory and online technologies. New York: Routledge.
- -see table of contents at Google Books
Nussbaum-Beach, Sheryl. (2012). The connected educator: learning and leading in a digital age. Bloomington, Indiana: Solution Tree Press.
Vaughan, Norman D., Martha Cleveland-Innes, D. Randy Garrison (2013). Teaching in Blended Learning Environments: Creating and Sustaining Communities of Inquiry, Athabasca: Athabasca University Press
- Download cc-licensed pdf or view online - https://www.aupress.ca/books/120229-teaching-in-blended-learning-environments/
Articles, journals, web references
Fredholm, Lotta (2001) Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936). Nobelprize.org. Retrieved from https://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/pavlov/readmore.html
Greengrass, M. (2004) 100 Years of B.F. Skinner, American Psychological Association. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/monitor/mar04/skinner.aspx
Millwood, Richard. (2013) Learning Theory, v6, Holistic Approach to
Technology Enhanced Learning (EU-funded project), retrieved from https://blog.richardmillwood.net/2013/05/10/learning-theory/
Robert Gagne's Nine Learning Events: Instructional Design for Dummies. (2017, March 8). ETEC 510, . Retrieved 15:13, September 27, 2020 from http://etec.ctlt.ubc.ca/510wiki/index.php?title=Robert_Gagne%27s_Nine_Learning_Events:_Instructional_Design_for_Dummies&oldid=63738.
Scientific Reasoning Research Institute. von Glasersfeld, Ernst. Radical Constructivism. Retrieved from https://www.srri.umass.edu/vonglasersfeld/
Siemens,
George (2005) Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age,
International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning.
Retrieved from http://www.itdl.org/Journal/Jan_05/article01.htm
Smith, M.K. (2002) ‘Jerome S. Bruner and the process of education’, The encyclopedia of pedagogy and informal education. [https://infed.org/mobi/jerome-bruner-and-the-process-of-education/ Retrieved: September 22, 2020
Smith, M. K. (2003). ‘Learning theory’, the encyclopedia of informal education. Retrieved from http://infed.org/mobi/learning-theory-models-product-and-process/
University of Leicester, Learning theories, David Kolb, retrieved from https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/doctoralcollege/training/eresources/teaching/theories/kolb
University College of Dublin Teaching and Learning Open Educational Resources, Education Theory, Constructivism and Social Constructivism. - see Main Theorists: John Dewey, Lev Vygotsky, retrieved from http://www.ucdoer.ie/index.php/Education_Theory/Constructivism_and_Social_Constructivism
Weibell, C. J. (2011). Behaviorism (John B. Watson) Principles of learning: 7 principles to guide personalized, student-centered learning in the technology-enhanced, blended learning environment. Retrieved Nov. 4, 2016 from [https://principlesoflearning.wordpress.com].
Wikipedia article - David Ausubel - Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ausubel
Wikipedia article - John Dewey - Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey