ECI 617 - Foundations of Instructional Technology: Week of September 15

Finishing Cognition and Models of Learning

• Gagne's Events of Instruction
• Gagne's 9 Events of Instruction - SDSU

Media Comparisons Debate

The nature of knowledge

• Epistemology lecture notes (pdf)

Are these two incompatible world views?

Assignments due September 22

Readings

• Reiser/Dempsey Chapter 6
• TIP : Motivation
• Motivation in Instructional Design : ERIC Digest
• ARCS and John Keller (click on the table of contents link, then scroll down to Keller- ARCS. The four parts are not listed in order. Also, there is no contextual link to Satisfaction - you'll need to go to the table of contents to see it.)
• TIP - Bandura
• Self-Efficacy, part of Information on Self-Efficacy

Assignment

• Map your practice Instructional Design onto its underlying epistemology. Use principles from the Motivation readings this week to enhance the effectiveness of your design
• Write a 300-500 word reaction to the readings. Submit this paper to the Digital Dropbox in BlackBoard
• Respond to my comments as needed
  

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