EdTech 503 - Instructional Design - Topic 4 - Discussion 3

Topic 4 - February 16th to February 22nd, 2015

This was the third week of discussions.  This weeks readings covered Chapters 4 and 5 from Larson and Lockee's book, Streamlined ID: A practical approach to instructional design as well as Case Studies 2, 10 and 21 from Ertner, Quinn and Glazewski's, The ID CaseBook: Case studies in instructional design.  The topic for Chapter 4 was Contexts of Instruction.  This chapter dealt with the four types of context in Instructional Design which included Performance Contexts, Learning Contexts, Cultural Contexts and Theoretical Contexts. 

Chapter  5 talked about the Analysis of the Contents in terms of designing instruction.  The main concept learned from this chapter is "content is king".  It introduced KASI and its importance to the development of the design process.

Again, just as with discussion 1 and 2, there was a lead group who gave a presentation and presented questions for the class to respond to.  Here are the links to the presentation and discussion questions along with my answers.

I have not started the Instructional Design project as of yet but realize how important the readings will be to the design process and the final product.  Although I find the readings in the textbook very hard to read - some paragraphs are read three times, I do find them very informative.  I will soon start the project and know the information contained in these two chapters will be essential in my final work.