ECI 617 - Foundations of Instructional Technology: Week of September 22

Understanding Motivation

A discussion of motivation, focusing on Keller's ARCS model

• Overview of Motivation Lecture Notes (pdf)

Motivation and the Design of Instruction

Integrating ARCS into instructional design

• Lecture Notes (pdf)

Assignments due September 29

Readings

• Reiser/Dempsey Chapter 7 and 8
• TIP - Multiple Intelligences
• Instructional Strategies that Teach (Merrill, 1998). (.pdf) This fills in some of the gaps in chapter 7
• Cognitive Flexibility, Constructivism and Hypertext

Assignments

• Take the Index of Learning Styles Questionaire and print out the results
• 300-500 word reaction paper posted to Digital Drop Box

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