Nick's Instructional Design Space

Prompt: What are your thoughts so far on Instructional Design?  My thoughts on instructional design so far is that it all makes perfect sense.  Instructional Design is process of finding a problem, finding the root of that problem, and then coming up with actionable pathways to come to a solution to that problem.  I had never really put as much thought into the root of problems, and how they are affected by the situations and circumstances that surround them.  Thinking like a client, that has a goal they want to achieve, and then coming up with the best and most efficient ways to achieve that goal is a way of looking at things I had not done to the degree that has been required of me until this class.  It has been incredibly rewarding. Starting with client meeting report, where the problem is identified.  Then looking at the reflective analysis, and the finding report that helped shed light on why the problem is a problem, and understanding it completel...

Week 4 Reflections: Prompt 1: What have you learned from the analysis? What are you planning to do with it? Do a little brainstorming about what activities tied to your learning objectives that you might include in the design of your lesson. I have learned many things from doing the analysis and the design about this project.  I have learned much about the process of creating meaning instructional design.  First identifying a problem, and then looking at the data as why that is a problem was the first wow step for me.  It's simple in idea, but understanding what exactly is going wrong with something, really starts to open up ideas and paths to fixing the problem that may not have been apparent at the beginning of the initial client interview.  The next "ah ha!" moment was shedding light on the idea that to fix the problem you have found, you need to first better understand what you want the end product to look like.  We have been taught most of my educatio...