The following is a summary/reflection of Winn (1990), the abstract follows This article examines some of the implications of recent developments in cognitive theory for instuctional design. It is argued that behavioral theory is inadequate to prescribe instructional strategies that teach for understanding. Examples of how instructional designers have adopted relevant aspects of cognitive theory […]
Monthly Archives: February 2010
The following is at first a rambling diatribe outlining some of my reservations with instructional design as it is practiced. Then it is a summary/reflection on Winn (1990) – “Some implications of cognitive theory for instructional design”. The abstract for Winn (199) This article examines some of the implications of recent developments in cognitive theory […]
Prior to BIM being installed and used at my current institution it had to be checked by folk at NetSpot. The following details what I’ve had to do in response to that. All of the changes are fairly minor, some won’t be changed as I don’t see the point and don’t have the time. Shall […]
As part of looking into a project around curriculum mapping I need to take a look at the current state of play around curriculum mapping in the Moodle community. This is a summary of what I can find at the moment. Moodle is used in both schools and universities. My impression is that schools have […]
The following is an attempt to make concrete various ideas that have been floating around about a project to take a very different approach to curriculum mapping. There’s a small glimmer that these ideas may form the basis for an ALTC grant application The following includes: The idea – a basic outline of the idea. […]
It is with a significant sense of relief that I announce the release of version 1.0 alpha of BIM. You can see the code and what passes for documentation on this page. The main BIM page gives more background on the rationale and design of BIM. BIM is meant to be used in action by […]
Today is the day that BIM get’s handed off to the folk of my institution’s central IT division and from there onto Netspot who will be ensuring that it is “safe” for IT to install it on the institution’s live Moodle instantiation. In preparation for the hand over, I’ve done one last test and identified […]
Today BIM was tested by an intelligent, but when it comes to BIM a clueless, user. I sat back and watched the assumptions and mistakes that were made because the system design was not well thought out enough or was missing some functionality. The following is a list of the ideas that arose from that […]
A few days ago Stephen Downes – a little unusually – made a sequence of comments/tweets on Twitter around the “sameness of meaning” and its impossibility. Since then I’ve had a number of experiences and discussions that suggest some of the problem associated with learning and teaching policy, process and structure within universities arises because […]
Currently testing BIM on the training/testing environment of my current institution. This is where I find all of the problems from the institution’s non-vanilla implementation of Moodle. Manage marking – not all markers – DONE Not showing details for all of the markers that have been allocated students. This appears to be because the institution […]
