ECI 617 - Foundations of Instructional Technology: Course Schedule

Introduction and History of Instructional Design & Technology

Agenda

• Introduction to Course
• Overview of Field
• Instructional Design

• Reiser/Dempsey Introduction and Chapters 1, 2 and 3

Agenda

• Historical Perspectives
• Instructional Design Model

Readings for next week

• Reiser/Dempsey Chapter 4
• Clark (94)
• Kozma (94)
• Jasper Woodbury

Theories of Learning in IDT

Agenda

• General Overview of Learning Theory
• Effects of Media on Learning: Clark or Kozma?

Readings for next week

• Reiser/Dempsey Chapter 5
• Systems Approach Model for Designing Instruction - Dick and Carey
• Gagnes 9 Events of Instruction: An Introduction - Kruse
• Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning - Brown, Collins & Duguid

Agenda

• The nature of knowledge
• Are these two incompatible world views?

Readings for next week

• Reiser/Dempsey Chapter 6
• TIP : Motivation
• Motivation in Instructional Design : ERIC Digest
• ARCS and John Keller (this link takes you to a table of contents - scroll down to ARCS and not they are not listed in order)
• TIP - Bandura
• Self-Efficacy, part of Information on Self-Efficacy

Agenda

• Understanding Motivation
• Motivation and the Design of Instruction

Readings for next week

• Reiser/Dempsey Chapter 7 and 8
• TIP - Multiple Intelligences
• Learning Styles - This reading is not reliably available. Please replace with next:
• Instructional Strategies that Teach (Merrill, 1998). This fills in some of the gaps in chapter 12
• Cognitive Flexibility, Constructivism and Hypertext

Agenda

• Accounting for Learning Styles
• Multiple Intelligence Theory
• Cognitive Flexibility Theory
• Problem Solving
• Well- and Ill-defined Problem Spaces

Readings for next week

• Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning - Brown, Collins & Duguid (review)
• Situated Learning
• Instructional Design based upon a Constructivist View

Agenda

• Constructivist Learning

Readings for next week

• Reiser/Dempsey Chapters 9 and 10

Performance Technology and Evaluation

Agenda

• Performance as a Concept
• Cases of Performance Technology

Readings for next week

• Reiser/Dempsey Chapters 11-12
• Kirkpatrick 4 Levels of Evaluation
• 2 Short Articles on Kirkpatrick
• Evaluation Tool Index

Agenda

• Formative Evaluation
• Summative Evaluation
• Program Evaluation

Readings for next week

• Reiser/Dempsey Chapters 13-14
• Drucker (94)

Agenda

• Issues in Project Management
• Innovation and Organizational Change

Readings for next week

• Reiser/Dempsey Chapters 15-20 (Select at least two that are of interest to you)
• Find and read one article about IDT’s role in one of your chosen disciplines

Assignments

• Prepare to lead a discussion on the chosen readings from above

IDT in Different Educational Environments

Agenda

• IDT in:
  • Business
  • Military
  • Health Care
  • Schools
  • Higher Education
  • Distance Education

Readings for next week

• Reiser/Dempsey Chapters 21-22
• Harasim (89)

Emerging Directions in IDT

Agenda

• Online Learning
• Systems View in IDT

Readings for next week

• Reiser/Dempsey Chapter 23
• Grabinger
• As We May Think by Vannevar Bush (45)
• (optional) A discussion of Vannevar Bush
• Review Cognitive Flexibility, Constructivism and Hypertext

Agenda

• Isn't Multimedia Dead Yet?
• Available Technologies
• Convergence Theory

Readings for next week

• Reiser/Dempsey Chapters 24-25

Agenda

• Future Technologies and IDT
• Social Impact of Mediated Instruction