Reflection on Content Design
By Prof.
Jonathan Acuña Solano
Friday,
May 1, 2015
Twitter:
@jonacuso
Post 159
Antecedents
·
As one progresses through the ADDIE model in
designing and developing a course, it is essential to reflect at every stage
and evaluate the work one has done so far.
·
Getting accustomed to the ADDIE phases can
indeed guide you through the whole process to successfully get fruitful results
for you, the instructor, and for your pupils.
·
As a Community of Practice Reflection for
those who are interested in the ADDIE Instructional Design Model, I hereby
evaluate my Action Plan (Blog
Post #157) and my Resource Prototype Development (Blog
Post #158).
·
Thinking of the possibilities of ADDIE, you
may consider this as a way of piloting online courses in online programs. Even
this may actually be used in blended or hybrid learning education.
My Reflection
After
working for about a year with the English Language Fellow from the American
Embassy over here in Costa Rica in 2011, the creation of video media for
instructional purposes was well assimilated and has helped me think
insightfully in terms how a resource can be used to improve student
understanding and deeper learning. For this reason, I am certain that it is in
the process of creating an instructional resource prototype that the real
training for us instructors really begins, and the experience we, the trainers,
gain is the most important one.
For
any neophyte in media production as educational resources for courses or
programs, we always have to be in the lookout for improvement and analysis
[following the ADDIE model principles]. I would not call myself an expert on
media production of educational resources, but it takes time to develop the
competencies needed to become independent in terms of production and analytical
to envision what is needed to help students learn. Avoid depending on others
and try two different things, depending on what your learning style is:
a.
Self-teach yourself as much as you can,
so you do not have to depend on others for any instructional design resource
production.
b.
Enroll in MOOCs like in Coursera.Org and
help yourself learn more about instructional design to start developing our
expertise.
c.
Give it a try! This is what the most
important experience of all is. Experimenting by yourself will teach you lots
of things from trials and errors. And don’t give up!
I
cannot talk about questions or concerns we instructors can have when carrying
out our action plan to devise the best of the instructional resources for one’s
course. The questions, problems, and the finding of solutions will take place
–no doubt-. But this is the very moment in which all of us learn from ourselves
and others to find the best way out to provide students with the learning they
have to accomplish in our courses.
Friday, May 01, 2015
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