Nick's Instructional Design Space

Prompt: "How has your personal theory of learning changed? How has it evolved? What caused that change?" Explanation: My learning Philosophy is pasted below.  It's a simple concept that attempts to answer what is the best way that learning happens, and hopefully the most successful way for me as a teacher to active that learning.  My theory about learning has not changed much over the past year, but there has been a lot of information that I have learned that has explained why  my theory is what is, with backing of studies and peer reviewed articles.  This version below was updated with parts about learning design, which even though I am just in the first few weeks of the class, I can already see why its a thing, and it's importance to the overall idea of how learning happens.  In fact this pre planing, overall look of how the learning will happen has inspired me to look at my current teaching with a designers view and not just a teacher view.  Look at w...

Prompt: Go out into the world (e.g., grocery store, mall, etc.) and locate two examples of instructional design in which you, the viewer/reader, are expected to learn something. What were the goals of the instruction? How effective was it? What are three things you learned that you are not likely to forget? My first example of running into, and experiencing instructional design in the "real world," came when I was at the gym, attempting to keep my annual new years resolution of getting back into shape.  When I hopped on to a treadmill, it donned on me that I have never truly experienced someone showing me how to use a treadmill, but it was something that's interface was designed to train you how to use it.   According  to Piskurich "the purpose of instructional design is to provide both an appropriate destination, and the right road to get you there," (Piskurich 2015) and this treadmill interface does just that.   The person running takes...