In one of the courses for my degree in Instructional Design, Development & Evaluation, our Professor, Phil Doughty, wouldn't let us use the word "need." And he was serious. We got called out, all semester, for using that word. We were forced to restate our point without using the word "need." It was a moderately …
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Getting Your Educational Innovations “Out There”
I hear it frequently from colleagues and friends... I'm just not a research-y person. I see patients and teach, I don't have time to write up articles for journals...Besides, I'm not good at that stuff... Perhaps it is the fault of the increasing demands of our clinical work, the difficulty in recruiting academic faculty, concern …
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Effective teaching – comparing two frameworks
Saw an interesting journal article recently on the the elements of instructional sessions that make them more effective. I was struck that Dr. Mayer (a prolific educational psychology researcher) listed Nine Evidence-based Principles for the Science of Instruction. Those in the instructional design fields will also be familiar with Robert Gagne's "Nine Events of Instruction". …
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Stuck at Level 2 – Kirkpatrick Levels of Training Evaluation and EBM Teaching
The instructional design world, focused as it is on training in business, has done a better job of defining educational outcomes, in my opinion, than we in medicine have. In medicine, we seem wedded to a clinical trial mentality. Not really in terms of study design - the randomized controlled trial is just as much …
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In love with data
Now this is kinda fun...not the subject matter...the site where the graph comes from, silly. This might be fun to teach critical thinking - note that much of the data is from Wikipedia. To critically analyze one of these graphs would be a decent amount of work.I wonder what the freakonomics guys would think about …
How much at the front end?
Found this instructional designer (and teacher) produced blog (Metacogitation) through a technorati search, and thought it was high time I buck up with a little Schoolin' talk...it's been a while...A post (one of two on the apparently new blog) talks about situational analysis and needs assessment and their utility in designing instruction - instruction ought …
Blogging for education
This years' participants in a class I really enjoyed in my masters' degree program on planned change and innovation have set up a weblog as an example of innovation that also manages to complete a requirement for the course. Cool, I think! Planned Change: Basic Theme of Chapter 6
