Three key instructional design practices for creating conference sessions that actually lead to learning.

1. Session Instructional
Session Instructional Design That
Leads to Learning
that leads to learning
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2. How did you get here?
A
Current State
B
Desired State
Good instructional design provides a
clear, effective, sustainable path from a
current state to a desired state.
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3. 90%
Learning down the drain
Source: Hermann Ebbinghaus
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4. 15 Minute Objectives:
o Identify three key practices
to promote learning
o Cite major reasons for why
they matter
o Compare key practices to
practices in your current
offerings
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Slides at: http://slidesha.re/session-design
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6. 3 Key Practices:
1. Framing Objectives
2. Meaningful Practice
3. Collaborative Feedback
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7. Framing Objectives
1
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8. Getting Rid of the Fuzzies
from Preparing Instructional Objectives by Robert F. Mager
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9. Why Objectives?
- Simplifies
- Clarifies Planning &
Design
- Sets Expectations /
Learner Contract
- Makes It Measurable
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10. Yes, you heard that right.
o Only 41.9 of associations percent
measure whether learning occurs
o Only 7.6 percent measure longer
term impact
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11. Getting Rid of the Fuzzies
from Preparing Instructional Objectives by Robert F. Mager
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12. 3 Key Practices:
✔ 1. Framing Objectives
✔ 2. Meaningful Practice
✔ 3. Collaborative Feedback
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13. Meaningful Practice
2
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14. Why Practice?
- Makes It About The
Learner
- Makes It Concrete
- Increases Relevance
- Taps Prior Experience
& Knowledge
- Promotes Memory
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15. 3 Collaborative Feedback
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16. Why Feedback?
- Leverages Medium
- Surfaces Gaps
- Enables Correction
- Aids “Sense Making”
and “Construction”
of Knowledge
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17. Social Learning Occurs Through
Social Interaction
Up to 80 percent of learning is informal
– much of that is social in nature.
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18. 3 Key Practices:
1. Framing Objectives
• Why?
2. Meaningful Practice
• Why?
3. Collaborative Feedback
• Why?
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19. 15 Minute Objectives:
✔ o Identify three key practices
to promote learning
✔ o Cite major reasons for why
they matter
o Compare key practices to
practices in your current
offerings
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20. Homework:
Review your conferences and
seminars for these practices.
How consistently and well are they
being applied?
What will you change?
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21. Photo Credits:
What? http://www.flickr.com/photos/whatwhat/5460833/
Feedback http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgcap/6334654131/
Social Learning
http://www.citejournal.org/vol1/iss4/currentissues/socialstudies/
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All other images licensed from www.istockphoto.com
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Contact
Jeff Cobb
• jcobb@tagoras.com
• 919.201.7460
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• @tagoras
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