Reflection

Reflection

 

Over the 8 week course I have learn so much about how people learn and how must consider every learning style to become an effective instructional designer. It also taught me to look at my own learning style and see how it will affect me as an instructional designer.

What surprised me the most about the course was the in-depth history of learning and all of the different learning components that are involved and how they affect the curriculum design.  Such as learning is an enduring change in behavior, or in the capacity to behave in a given fashion, which results from practice or other forms of experience (Ertmer and Newby, 1993). What also surprised me was how all the learning theories were connected which allowed me to develop new learning tools. It also provided me with great insight on how to approach different learning styles and to design a curriculum that will challenge each learner in their perspective learning style. Cognitivism focuses on the role environmental conditions play in facilitating learning. It also focuses on the conceptualization of students learning processes and address the issues of how information is received , organization and stored, and retrieved by the mind (Ertmer and Newby, 1993). Constructivism focuses on learning with creating meaning from experience. Constructivism is considered to be a branch of cognitivism both conceive of learning as a mental activity. The both look at how important our environment is and the impact it can have on our we learn and interpret the meaning. This course has helped me in so many ways by challenge me to try new learning tools by setting up my first blog which has allowed me to connect with so many people. This course has also pushed me to do more research on other learning tools so that I have a better understanding of where education is going and where it is heading. So that I can also impalement some of these tools into my own design which will make a more effective instructor. Everything that I have learned in this course I will use in the next course and in my career.

  Ertmer, P. A., & Newby, T. J. (1993). Behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism: Comparing critical features from an instructional design perspective. Performance Improvement Quarterly,