Week 1 - Instructional Design

What is Instructional Design?

From the University of Houston, Professor Sara McNeil compiles a concise definition of Instructional Design:

Instructional Design is the systematic process of translating general principles of learning and instruction into plans for instructional materials and learning.

She has also compiled thoughts on Instructional Design as a Process, Discipline, Science and Reality. She includes definitions of Instructional System, Instructional Technology and Instructional Development.

For more details click on the link: Instructional Design Definition

Pedagogical ideals require Instructional Design principals that take into account the learner outcomes; including goals and objectives, consider the learner's own learning style and the method in which the teacher delivers it to the learners.

Beginning

The inaugural post....what profound thing to say...I like the fact that we are using blogs and chats as a part of our class. Of course we are all sitting in the same room so we read and talk and have both visual and aural stimulus...Maybe we should all go to different computer labs throughout the campus...or take our laptops to a cafe...