Based upon your experience revising your instructional design document this week, reflect on what you learned from your peer’s feedback. What did you learn about your work? What did you change as a result? What did you not change? Why?

It looks like we will still have a week or two added to the schedule for updating our design documents, so I think this will be more about me predicting what I will change or not change.  I knew coming into this that I would be a bit rusty on these more formal parts of instructional design. Its really been over a decade since I had my last Master’s course that covered this more formal method. My Master’s Degree focused more on a wide variety of instructional design methods, so we kind of did one intro course on ADDIE and Dick & Carey and then off down the rabbit hole of connectivism and open learning. Many of the classes that I have designed at UTA over the years are also more open in design, in that we tend to collect various open resources to teach with, rather than recreating things that are already on YouTube. So the biggest thing I have learned is that I will have to dig deep back into my schooling to probably finish this course. That may not technically result in a class that I can actually use at UTA, but I may not have to worry about that going forward.

I will be changing some of the areas and places where the language was not clear what I was working on. Technically, I only used words that some one with an ID background should know, but some were flagged and so better safe than sorry. There were also some suggestions on changing the order of content that I may take or leave – I will basically see what the instructor feedback is and if he agrees, then I will go with it. But if not, I will stick with the order that was given in the instructions 🙂

Probably what I won’t change are the objectives, at least not as radically as was suggested. I went for a more connectivist / performance-oriented set of objectives, and it was recommended that I switch back to simpler behaviorist lists of actions to accomplish. I feel that objectives are much easier to evaluate if you include the criteria and conditions along with the behaviors.  This just makes it easier to connect the goal and topic with the assessments and outcomes.

Of course, I may have bitten off more than I can chew with the idea in general, so we’ll see if I can accomplish the transition I want to make in less than 45 hours of instruction.