Advanced Instructional Design
Instructor: Dr. Nada Dabbagh
Spring 2017 - 3 Credits
Course Description
Provides students with the knowledge and skills for designing highly contextualized and engaging problem-solving learning environments using a grounded, theory-based design approach. Emphasizes the design of technology supported learning environments using a variety of pedagogical models.
Professional Standards
The following standards from the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction (IBSTPI) were covered in this course:
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Professional Foundations:
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2. Apply research and theory to the discipline of instructional design (Advanced)
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3. Update and improve knowledge, skills, and attitudes pertaining to the instructional design process (Essential)
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Design & Development:
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10. Use an instructional design and development process appropriate for a given project (Essential)
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12. Design instructional interventions (Essential)
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14. Select or modify existing instructional materials (Essential)
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15. Develop instructional materials(Essential)
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16. Design learning assessment (Advanced)
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Artifacts and Reflections from Course
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For my culminating project in this course, I designed a website on Colony Collpase Disorder that was designed using the educational model of Cognitive Flexibility Hypertext (CFH). The document that you see on this page is the design document for this project. To access the website that I created, please click on this link or on the link earlier in this paragraph.
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Overall, I feel that I did a good job of designing the site. I used the perspectives of the various industries that are involved as my themes. I enjoyed working on this and would like to continue to refine it in the future.
This assignment was inspired by the EDUCAUSE 7 Things You Should Know series. We were asked to choose an educational theory and to create a research brief that detailed the 5 things that someone should know about that theory. I chose Cognitive Apprenticeship. Overall, I am very happy with the outcome of this paper. It allowed me to deep into this theory more intensely and I was able to learn a great deal about it.