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HMLT 5203 Course Redesign 
Master of Instructional Design & Technology 
Open University of Malaysia 
When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, 
we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance 
improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement 
accelerates. 
Thomas S. Monson 
T. Damian Boyle 
August 10, 2014
Activity 1: 5X5 Blog Posts. Six Weeks. Value: 20% 
The organization of knowledge should be an essential concern of the teacher or 
educational planner so that the direction from simple to complex is not from 
arbitrary, meaningless parts to meaningful wholes, but instead from simplified 
wholes to complex wholes (Knowles, 1988). 
The Adult Learner, p.248 
2
Activity 1: 5X5 Blog Posts. Six Weeks. Value: 20% 
To End of Week Six: 
Five Point Blog Entries, Five Times per Week (5X5 Posts) 
 One Annotated Database Addition (Book, Article, Video, Web Site...) 
 One Comment (Observation, Reflection, Musing, Speculation….) 
 One Dialogue Contribution (To invite, encourage and extend discussions.) 
 One Question (To provoke critical thinking and drive exploration.) 
 One Record of Time on Task (Minutes for each of above four items.) 
3
Activity 1: 5X5 Blog Posts. Six Weeks. Value: 20% 
Purposes of 5X5 Blog Posts: 
 To develop skills for enquiry, discovery, synthesis, and interaction. 
 To develop a subject matter knowledge base and data base. 
 To develop a shared data base for future reference. 
 To foster broad, deep, far reaching, and well informed discussions. 
 To encourage routine engagement with materials and participants. 
 To establish measurable criteria for assessments. 
 To provide hard data for course re-design considerations. 
4
Activity 1: 5X5 Blog Posts. Six Weeks. Value: 20% 
Note 1: 
 Questions, Comments, Data Base Additions, and Dialogue Contributions to 
other participants count for both content and time for your own required 
Blog Entries, and not for theirs. 
Note 2: 
 Five Point Daily Blog Entries may be submitted on later dates, as life 
circumstances dictate, but general timeliness will be an overall evaluation 
consideration. Communication of needs for delayed participation is required 
in advance for other than emergent needs. 
5
Activity 1: 5X5 Blog Posts. Six Weeks. Value: 20% 
 Internet Research (How to Look & How to Judge) 
http://edunorth.wordpress.com/research/ 
 Questions 
http://edunorth.wordpress.com/questions/ 
 Thinking 
http://edunorth.wordpress.com/thinking/ 
 Writing Resources 
http://edunorth.wordpress.com/writing/ 
 Assessment 
http://edunorth.wordpress.com/assessment/ 
 Instructional Design 
http://edunorth.wordpress.com/instructional-design/ 
6
Activity 2: Formative Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%. 
The single most critical aspect of the role of program administrator is to function 
as a developer of human resources development personnel. 
The Adult Learner, p. 130 
7
Activity 2: Formative Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%. 
During Week Three: 
 Tripartite formative evaluations of each participant’s work will be based on 
the quantity and quality of the Five Point Daily Blog Entries. 
 Each participant will rate every other participant, and themselves, using a 
provided 5X5 Rubric. 
 The Instructor will present their ratings last, using the same 5X5 Rubric. 
8
Activity 2: Formative Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%. 
Purposes of Formative Evaluation: 
 To develop assessment skills. 
 To provide reference standards for assessment comparisons 
 To provide balanced performance assessments to each participant. 
 To inform Instructor and participants of needs for support and guidance. 
 To foster frank discussions. 
9
Activity 2: Formative Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%. 
Note: 
 Participants may use evaluations as the basis for Blog postings. 
For Reference: 
 Tripartite Evaluation Method 
http://edunorth.wordpress.com/workplace-skills/ 
10
Activity 3: Article Writing. Six Weeks. Value: 25%. 
Adult education is a process through which learners become aware of significant 
experience. Recognition of experience leads to evaluation. Meanings accompany 
experience when we know what is happening and what importance the event has 
for our personalities. 
Eduard Lindeman (1926) 
The Adult Learner, p.37 
11
Activity 3: Article Writing. Six Weeks. Value: 25%. 
To End of Week Six: 
 Research, Write, and Present an Article on a Negotiated Topic. 
Note: 
 Each participant’s Article must be shared with all other participants. 
Note: 
 Five Point Rating Scale, With Five Considerations (5X5 Scoring Rubric). 
12
Activity 3: Article Writing. Six Weeks. Value: 25%. 
Purposes of Article Writing: 
 To develop research, critical thinking, and technical writing skills. 
 To provide latitude for exploration of areas of interest. 
 To develop awareness of current data and perspectives. 
 To develop subject matter knowledge and expertise. 
 To provide grounds for informed discussions. 
 To maximise fidelity with workplace practices of document sharing. 
13
Activity 4: Article Critiques. Three Weeks. Value: 25%. 
This concern for environmental facilitation of interaction among the learners is 
supported by the behaviourists’ concept of immediacy of feedback, the importance 
placed on the learner having an active role is supported by Dewey, and the 
utilization of the constructive forces in groups is supported by field theorists and 
humanistic psychologists. 
The Adult Learner, p.118. 
14
Activity 4: Article Critiques. Three Weeks. Value: 25%. 
To End of Week Nine: 
 Critique and Evaluation of Participants’ Articles 
 Each participant must review and rate all of the (assigned) articles using a 
provided 5X5 Rubric. 
 Each participant must provide feedback to every other participant in the 
form of 5X5 Ratings Documents, Questions, Comments, and Database 
Additions, as Blog postings. 
15
Activity 4: Article Critiques. Three Weeks. Value: 25%. 
Purposes of Article Critiques and Evaluations: 
 To develop critical reading and thinking skills. 
 To broaden and deepen knowledge of pertinent topics. 
 To provide experience with critique, evaluation, and feedback. 
 To provide balanced performance assessment and feedback. 
 To maximise fidelity with workplace practices of document development. 
 To foster frank discussions. 
16
Activity 5: Course Re-Design. Ten Weeks. Value: 10%. 
Single-loop learning is learning that fits prior experiences and existing values, 
which enables the learner to respond in an automatic way. Double-loop learning is 
learning that does not fit the learner’s prior experiences or schema. Generally it 
requires learners to change their mental schema in a fundamental way. 
The Adult Learner, p.188. 
17
Activity 5: Course Re-Design. Ten Weeks. Value: 10%. 
To End of Week Ten: 
 Each participant must present their HMLT 5203 Course Re-Design 
Recommendations and Justifications to all other participants for discussion. 
18
Activity 5: Course Re-Design. Ten Weeks. Value: 10%. 
Purposes Of HMLT 5203 Course Re-Design: 
 To develop a practice of continual improvement. 
 To provide Participants with a range of perspectives. 
 To provide the Instructor with feedback about the course design. 
19
Activity 6: Re-Design Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%. 
When applied to the organization of adult education, a democratic philosophy 
means that the learning activities will be based on the real needs and interests of 
the participants; that the policies will be determined by a group that is a 
representative of all participants; and that there will be a maximum of 
participation by all members of the organization in sharing responsibility for 
making and carrying out decisions. 
The Adult Learner, p. 108. 
20
Activity 6: Re-Design Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%. 
To End of Week Eleven: 
 Each participant will rate every other participant’s work on Course Re-Design 
Recommendations and Justifications, and their own, using a provided 5X5 
Rubric. 
 Evaluations will be shared with all participants for discussion and 
negotiation. 
21
Activity 6: Re-Design Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%. 
Purposes of HMLT 5203 Course Re-Design Evaluations: 
 To develop practices of critical reflection and assessment. 
 To provide balanced performance assessments to each participant. 
 To foster frank discussions. 
22
Activity 7: Summative Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%. 
Human resource development practitioners, while always valuing experience, 
increasingly emphasize experiential learning as a means to improve performance 
(Swanson, 1996). Action reflection learning is one technique developed to focus 
on learners’ experiences and integrate experience into the learning process (ARL 
Inquiry, 1996). 
The Adult Learner, p.196. 
23
Activity 7: Summative Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%. 
To End of Week Twelve: 
 Summative Evaluation of 5x5 Blog Posts and Overall Performance 
 Tripartite evaluations of each participant’s work will be based on the quantity 
and quality of the contributions by participants throughout the course. 
 A 5X5 Scoring Rubric will be used. 
 Evaluations will be shared with all for discussion and negotiation. 
24
Activity 7: Summative Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%. 
Purposes of Summative Evaluation: 
 To develop practices of critical review, reflection, and assessment. 
 To provide balanced performance assessments to each participant. 
25
Activity 8: Lunch and Laughter. One Hour. Value: 200%. 
26

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Instructional Design Online Course Outline and Justifications (MIDT, OUM)

  • 1. HMLT 5203 Course Redesign Master of Instructional Design & Technology Open University of Malaysia When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates. Thomas S. Monson T. Damian Boyle August 10, 2014
  • 2. Activity 1: 5X5 Blog Posts. Six Weeks. Value: 20% The organization of knowledge should be an essential concern of the teacher or educational planner so that the direction from simple to complex is not from arbitrary, meaningless parts to meaningful wholes, but instead from simplified wholes to complex wholes (Knowles, 1988). The Adult Learner, p.248 2
  • 3. Activity 1: 5X5 Blog Posts. Six Weeks. Value: 20% To End of Week Six: Five Point Blog Entries, Five Times per Week (5X5 Posts)  One Annotated Database Addition (Book, Article, Video, Web Site...)  One Comment (Observation, Reflection, Musing, Speculation….)  One Dialogue Contribution (To invite, encourage and extend discussions.)  One Question (To provoke critical thinking and drive exploration.)  One Record of Time on Task (Minutes for each of above four items.) 3
  • 4. Activity 1: 5X5 Blog Posts. Six Weeks. Value: 20% Purposes of 5X5 Blog Posts:  To develop skills for enquiry, discovery, synthesis, and interaction.  To develop a subject matter knowledge base and data base.  To develop a shared data base for future reference.  To foster broad, deep, far reaching, and well informed discussions.  To encourage routine engagement with materials and participants.  To establish measurable criteria for assessments.  To provide hard data for course re-design considerations. 4
  • 5. Activity 1: 5X5 Blog Posts. Six Weeks. Value: 20% Note 1:  Questions, Comments, Data Base Additions, and Dialogue Contributions to other participants count for both content and time for your own required Blog Entries, and not for theirs. Note 2:  Five Point Daily Blog Entries may be submitted on later dates, as life circumstances dictate, but general timeliness will be an overall evaluation consideration. Communication of needs for delayed participation is required in advance for other than emergent needs. 5
  • 6. Activity 1: 5X5 Blog Posts. Six Weeks. Value: 20%  Internet Research (How to Look & How to Judge) http://edunorth.wordpress.com/research/  Questions http://edunorth.wordpress.com/questions/  Thinking http://edunorth.wordpress.com/thinking/  Writing Resources http://edunorth.wordpress.com/writing/  Assessment http://edunorth.wordpress.com/assessment/  Instructional Design http://edunorth.wordpress.com/instructional-design/ 6
  • 7. Activity 2: Formative Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%. The single most critical aspect of the role of program administrator is to function as a developer of human resources development personnel. The Adult Learner, p. 130 7
  • 8. Activity 2: Formative Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%. During Week Three:  Tripartite formative evaluations of each participant’s work will be based on the quantity and quality of the Five Point Daily Blog Entries.  Each participant will rate every other participant, and themselves, using a provided 5X5 Rubric.  The Instructor will present their ratings last, using the same 5X5 Rubric. 8
  • 9. Activity 2: Formative Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%. Purposes of Formative Evaluation:  To develop assessment skills.  To provide reference standards for assessment comparisons  To provide balanced performance assessments to each participant.  To inform Instructor and participants of needs for support and guidance.  To foster frank discussions. 9
  • 10. Activity 2: Formative Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%. Note:  Participants may use evaluations as the basis for Blog postings. For Reference:  Tripartite Evaluation Method http://edunorth.wordpress.com/workplace-skills/ 10
  • 11. Activity 3: Article Writing. Six Weeks. Value: 25%. Adult education is a process through which learners become aware of significant experience. Recognition of experience leads to evaluation. Meanings accompany experience when we know what is happening and what importance the event has for our personalities. Eduard Lindeman (1926) The Adult Learner, p.37 11
  • 12. Activity 3: Article Writing. Six Weeks. Value: 25%. To End of Week Six:  Research, Write, and Present an Article on a Negotiated Topic. Note:  Each participant’s Article must be shared with all other participants. Note:  Five Point Rating Scale, With Five Considerations (5X5 Scoring Rubric). 12
  • 13. Activity 3: Article Writing. Six Weeks. Value: 25%. Purposes of Article Writing:  To develop research, critical thinking, and technical writing skills.  To provide latitude for exploration of areas of interest.  To develop awareness of current data and perspectives.  To develop subject matter knowledge and expertise.  To provide grounds for informed discussions.  To maximise fidelity with workplace practices of document sharing. 13
  • 14. Activity 4: Article Critiques. Three Weeks. Value: 25%. This concern for environmental facilitation of interaction among the learners is supported by the behaviourists’ concept of immediacy of feedback, the importance placed on the learner having an active role is supported by Dewey, and the utilization of the constructive forces in groups is supported by field theorists and humanistic psychologists. The Adult Learner, p.118. 14
  • 15. Activity 4: Article Critiques. Three Weeks. Value: 25%. To End of Week Nine:  Critique and Evaluation of Participants’ Articles  Each participant must review and rate all of the (assigned) articles using a provided 5X5 Rubric.  Each participant must provide feedback to every other participant in the form of 5X5 Ratings Documents, Questions, Comments, and Database Additions, as Blog postings. 15
  • 16. Activity 4: Article Critiques. Three Weeks. Value: 25%. Purposes of Article Critiques and Evaluations:  To develop critical reading and thinking skills.  To broaden and deepen knowledge of pertinent topics.  To provide experience with critique, evaluation, and feedback.  To provide balanced performance assessment and feedback.  To maximise fidelity with workplace practices of document development.  To foster frank discussions. 16
  • 17. Activity 5: Course Re-Design. Ten Weeks. Value: 10%. Single-loop learning is learning that fits prior experiences and existing values, which enables the learner to respond in an automatic way. Double-loop learning is learning that does not fit the learner’s prior experiences or schema. Generally it requires learners to change their mental schema in a fundamental way. The Adult Learner, p.188. 17
  • 18. Activity 5: Course Re-Design. Ten Weeks. Value: 10%. To End of Week Ten:  Each participant must present their HMLT 5203 Course Re-Design Recommendations and Justifications to all other participants for discussion. 18
  • 19. Activity 5: Course Re-Design. Ten Weeks. Value: 10%. Purposes Of HMLT 5203 Course Re-Design:  To develop a practice of continual improvement.  To provide Participants with a range of perspectives.  To provide the Instructor with feedback about the course design. 19
  • 20. Activity 6: Re-Design Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%. When applied to the organization of adult education, a democratic philosophy means that the learning activities will be based on the real needs and interests of the participants; that the policies will be determined by a group that is a representative of all participants; and that there will be a maximum of participation by all members of the organization in sharing responsibility for making and carrying out decisions. The Adult Learner, p. 108. 20
  • 21. Activity 6: Re-Design Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%. To End of Week Eleven:  Each participant will rate every other participant’s work on Course Re-Design Recommendations and Justifications, and their own, using a provided 5X5 Rubric.  Evaluations will be shared with all participants for discussion and negotiation. 21
  • 22. Activity 6: Re-Design Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%. Purposes of HMLT 5203 Course Re-Design Evaluations:  To develop practices of critical reflection and assessment.  To provide balanced performance assessments to each participant.  To foster frank discussions. 22
  • 23. Activity 7: Summative Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%. Human resource development practitioners, while always valuing experience, increasingly emphasize experiential learning as a means to improve performance (Swanson, 1996). Action reflection learning is one technique developed to focus on learners’ experiences and integrate experience into the learning process (ARL Inquiry, 1996). The Adult Learner, p.196. 23
  • 24. Activity 7: Summative Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%. To End of Week Twelve:  Summative Evaluation of 5x5 Blog Posts and Overall Performance  Tripartite evaluations of each participant’s work will be based on the quantity and quality of the contributions by participants throughout the course.  A 5X5 Scoring Rubric will be used.  Evaluations will be shared with all for discussion and negotiation. 24
  • 25. Activity 7: Summative Evaluation. One Week. Value: 5%. Purposes of Summative Evaluation:  To develop practices of critical review, reflection, and assessment.  To provide balanced performance assessments to each participant. 25
  • 26. Activity 8: Lunch and Laughter. One Hour. Value: 200%. 26

Editor's Notes

  1. Notes are included with slides as Speaker Notes. Speaker Notes include background information which the Speaker may or may not present explicitly, but would need to be prepared to address. All participants have an equal responsibility for contributing inputs in what is intended as a group learning experience. My observation during the HMLT 5203 course was that demonstrable participation by participants was quite uneven, for reasons about which I can only speculate. For example, the Survey I sent out as part of this Re-Design assignment had only five anonymous responses. (In addition to my own: one full response, with comments, and three partial responses, with scale ratings only.) To encourage equal contributions from participants, I believe that their disclosed involvement with the evaluation process would be beneficial. Also, to effectively guide academic development by participants, they must be provided with prompt and meaningful feedback. It is from this perspective that I have approached this Course Re-Design activity.
  2. I have chosen to use quotes from The Adult Learner to provide advance organizers for the component sections, a la David Ausubel, as a way of honouring and promoting the work of Malcolm Knowles, Eduard Lindemann, and others. I read The Adult Learner during July of 2014, while working through this course, and found it a rich source of information. I now recommend it highly as THE single best starting point for anyone seriously interested in the field, and wish I had encountered it much sooner. (I found the typesetting to be appallingly poor, however.) Knowles, M. S., Holton, E. F., & Swanson, R. A. (2012). The Adult Learner (Seventh Edition). New York: Routledge.
  3. Activities will run parallel to one another. Time indicated is for Activity Completion Dates (Deadlines). This provides a single continuous flow of shared open activity rather than consecutive starts and stops of discrete closed activities. Note: Record of Time on Task is to identify how many minutes are spent each day on each component task: Annotations, Comments, Dialogues, Questions. I believe that Michael Anderson (2012) asks some cogent questions, and posits some worthwhile considerations, relating to the task at hand. THE QUESTION OF DESIGN IMPACT A collaborative community organized by adult learners creates coherent group identification. That community can be instantiated by focusing initial social interactions on solving the technological and pedagogical problems of online delivery. While numerous research studies (Ehman, L., Bonk, C. & Yamagata-Lynch, L., 2005; Gaible, E. & Burns, M., 2005; Kayler, M.A. & Swanson, K.W., 2008; Gallimore, R., Ermeling, B.A., Saunders. W.M., & Goldenberg, C., 2009) have demonstrated the value of modeling to faculty professional development, little research has been conducted on the role of modeling in online faculty workshops. The lack of interaction in most online courses suggests that current practices of merely recommending interaction in online courses is ineffective. The failure of communities to develop among faculty members may be due to the absence of a contextual model, a problem-centered and practice-focused community of passion among online instructors that serves as a paradigm for community development in their own courses. The use of authentic problems drawn from the online faculty development community itself and resolved through collaboration with mentors may increase the implementation of interaction in online courses. The incorporation of mentoring and mentored roles within that community may even create a flow experience for participants, an experience which in turn leads to durability; if community participation produces effective online instructional solutions, the faculty members will see results in their online courses. Anderson, M.W., (2012). Staying Online: A Design for a Sustainable Community of Practice for Online Instructors. (Master’s Report). Retrieved from: http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/ETD-UT-2012-08-6181/ANDERSON-MASTERS-REPORT.pdf?sequence=1
  4. Activity 1 Justification   To my mind, the point of transition to a more broadly useful approach to thinking about computer assisted instruction – and instructional design – came with the acknowledgement of the Human in the equation. This came to the fore in work done by Polson, Spector, and Tennyson for the Armstrong Laboratory (1991):   Polson argues that a system which allows students to perform some planning and monitoring promotes the development of regulatory skills essential for expert performance. As a result, in order to be effective, CBI must be highly interactive and the interactions must be designed around appropriate knowledge structures.   Recent work on “problem solving and knowledge construction in ill structured domains” is also supportive of my approach (Wu, Wang, Spector, & Yang. 2013): The proposed DML [Dual-Mapping Learning] approach was underpinned by the cognitive apprenticeship model (Collins et al., 1991), an instructional paradigm based on situated cognition and directly aligned with PBL [Problem Based Learning]. Based on the cognitive apprenticeship model, learning in problem contexts should consider: (a) situating abstract tasks in authentic contexts, (b) making complex tasks and thinking processes visible, and (c) providing necessary help to learners. Different from traditional schooling methods, the cognitive apprenticeship model emphasizes that abstract tasks and thinking processes must be made visible, i.e., making expert knowledge and practice explicit for learners to observe, enact, and finally practice. Further, six cognitive strategies including articulation, reflection, exploration, modeling, coaching, and scaffolding are proposed in the cognitive apprenticeship model. This activity immediately casts participants like pebbles into the pond, as recommended by David Merrill (2002), to begin working on pertinent tasks in a process that will grow to encompass fuller considerations of larger problems. Blog postings provide an opportunity for learners to explore and draft the ideas and content for their Articles and Course Re-Design proposals, and make stylistic and substantive revisions to these materials based their own reflections and the inputs of other participants. Rather than being a separate activity from the Article preparation activity, and the subsequent Course Re-Design activity, it is actually integral to both of these.   The requirement for five relatively small whole-tasks (chunks) to be completed five times per week is intended to encourage steady engagement with the course materials, activities, and with other participants. The five component whole-tasks are believed to each be small enough, and simple enough, to be achievable by those with minimal prior academic preparation without requiring onerous efforts. The routine repetition of these small whole-tasks is believed to provide sufficient practice to develop important academic skills and habits relatively quickly. Each component small whole-task will later be but a part-task of a much larger whole-tasks, which are the Article and Course Re-Design assignments. Thus one activity flows alongside and then into another, with increasing levels of complexity. This process is intended to distribute the cognitive load relating to the Article and Course Re-Design assignments, and foster a moderate pace.   These ideas about part and whole tasks, skills development, and cognition are expounded by van Merrienboer & Kirschner (2013), as may be seen in the following quotations from their work:   Learning tasks are preferably based on real-life or professional tasks. This ensures that the tasks make an appeal on knowledge, skills as well as attitudes. Such integration has positive effects on transfer of learning, that is, the ability to transfer what has been learned to new professional situations or real life. ... Learning tasks drive learning from concrete experiences or ‘learning by doing’. The main underlying learning process is inductive learning. … First, learning tasks are different from each other on surface features. Despite differences in surface features, tasks are performed in the same fashion. ...   Second, learning tasks should be different from each other on structural features. Tasks that differ from each other on structural features should be performed in different ways. ... Cognitive feedback. This type of feedback helps the learner to critically compare and contrast the quality of own mental models with the mental models of experts or peers, and to compare and contrast the quality of own cognitive strategies with the cognitive strategies of experts or peers. Reflection is critical in this process. Work by Fink (2005) also appears to be significantly supportive of my approach. I am gratified by this, and here recommend it to the reader. Others have already confirmed the general validity of Fink’s approach, which I find reassuring (Fallahi, 2011). References: Armstrong Laboratory, Human Resource Directorate, Technical Training Research Division. (1991). Designing an Advanced Instructional Design Advisor: Cognitive Science Foundations. Volume 1.  Retrieved from: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a236560.pdf   Fallahi, C. (2011). Using Fink’s Taxonomy in Course Design Observer Vol.24, No.7 September, 2011 http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2011/september-11/using-finks-taxonomy-in-course-design.html   Fink, L.D. (2005). A Self-Directed Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning. Retrieved from: http://finkconsulting.info/major-publications/ Merrill, M. D. (2002). A pebble-in-the-pond model for instructional design. Performance Improvement. 41(7), 39-44. http://www.ispi.org/pdf/Merrill.pdf   van Merrienboer, J. J. G. & Kirschner, P. A. (2013). Ten Steps to Complex Learning (Second Edition). New York: Routledge.    Wu, B., Wang, M., Spector, J. M., & Yang, S. J. H. (2013). Design of a Dual-Mapping Learning Approach for Problem Solving and Knowledge Construction in Ill-Structured Domains. Educational Technology & Society, 16 (4), 71–84. http://www.ifets.info/journals/16_4/6.pdf
  5. Some starting points for your consideration. My observation has been that some of the participants in the HMLT 5203 course were apparently not skilled with academic research and discourse. I do not regard this as a particular weakness or a deficiency of the course or the MIDT program as an acceptable entry level of experience and skills. However, where the requisite skills are not already developed, participants must be supported and guided with working on these foundational aspects. I believe that it is no accident that van Merrienboer & Kirschner chose to use the topic of academic research as a notable illustration in their work Ten Steps to Complex Learning (2013).
  6. Activity 2 Justification   It is my belief that awareness of the close scrutiny of the community of peers involved with the evaluation exercises will motivate participants to apply their best efforts to completing the 5X5 Blog Entries and other assigned tasks. This is an attempt to leverage of enculturated social responses of individuals vis-à-vis the judgements of the members of the community that they identify with. I first encountered this tripartite method of evaluation in the Saskatchewan NewStart Life Skills Coach Training, and found it there very effective.   This tripartite evaluation method provides multiple experiences for all participants with the practice of evaluations. It provides a 360 Degree review of each participant to ensure balance and fairness. The Instructor participates last in this so that participants have a reference standard by which to judge their own judgements reflexively. The Instructor retains the right to rule on the final assessment.   The Five Point Rating Scale includes a Zero for non-performance, or ineffective performance, which may be recorded as Incomplete for progression considerations. Where evidence of good faith efforts has been shown, alternative arrangements for completion of course activities may be negotiated – at the Instructor’s discretion.   For Reference: Canadian Alliance of Life Skills Coaches and Associations http://calsca.com/ Behavioral Change Models http://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/MPH-Modules/SB/SB721-Models/SB721-Models.html   The impact of non-cognitive skills on outcomes for young people http://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/uploads/pdf/Non-cognitive_skills_literature_review.pdf
  7. Note: The tripartite evaluation example provided is not the actual instrument that would be used. The intended instrument would be similar in design, however.
  8. Activity 3 Justification   Negotiation of a Topic for an Article acknowledges the Learner’s ability to determine appropriate directions for exploration according to their interests and needs. This turns control of direction over to the Learner, as Malcolm Knowles advises. It also ensures that the Learner will be appropriately supported and guided in the developmental process as required, as recommended by Van Merrienboer and Kirsch (2013).   Sharing Articles is consistent with the use of documents produced in the workplace, and thus provides an activity with relatively high fidelity to the application situation, as recommended by Van Merrienboer and Kirsch (2013). Negotiation would ensure that adequate attention is paid to theoretical foundations by a historical review. The Instructor would be expected to also provide ongoing guidance to major considerations by asking questions in Blog postings. The Instructor must maintain a presence as a guide in the process. Note: Article may be written in any language, so long as a reasonable translation is also provided. Machine translations may be acceptable for this purpose. Resources are posted at: http://edunorth.wordpress.com/languages/
  9. Assuming a relatively small number of participants, each participant would be required to review all of the articles. An upper limit of 15 articles for review by each participant is proposed.
  10. Activity 4 Justification   This is also about providing maximum value to the consumer for their money spent. Participants will receive a much larger body of information in this way than they could possibly have generated by themselves in the same amount of time. It is believed that a broad range of theories will also be critically considered and absorbed in the process.   That this is not already being done leaves me wondering if there is some Intellectual Property concern that the OUM has rightly respected.   In my own experience with the HMLT 5203 course, I felt profoundly disappointed with – and frustrated by – the lack of substantial sharing of information and ideas. As a consequence, I began revisiting alternate Master’s Degree programs from other institutions. The OUM may attract consumers with relatively low financial costs, but it will not retain them by also providing low value for money spent. This is the value proposition that the MIDT Program at OUM must resolve. My evaluation of the course has driven my Re-Design of the course.
  11. There may or may not be a better way to approach the problem. How would we know for sure?
  12. Presentation is the easy part.
  13. Activity 5 Justification   Much the same as for Activity 2.
  14. When do we become that which we aspire to be? When we start doing it.
  15. If you don’t agree with a rating you have received, you may attempt to persuade others to your point of view based on evidence that supports your position.
  16. Activity 6 Justification   As stated.
  17. Experience without conscious and critical reflection may not yield all of the potential lessons to be learned. For Reference: An Introduction to Project Management http://www.usbr.gov/excellence/Finals/FinalIntroPM.pdf
  18. If you don’t agree with a rating you have received, you may attempt to persuade others to your point of view based on evidence that supports your position.
  19. Activity 7 Justification   Much the same as for Activity 2. Note: The Instructor retains the right to final assessment in all cases.
  20. A group photo of your Instructors. Trust us. We know what we’re doing.