Trends in Instructional Designing

Today Instructional designing is a well-known field and has great opportunities. Nowadays there are changes in the way the training and education is delivered. In today’s era the spotlight is more on learners then on teachers. Instructional Designers are expected to plan and design proper and systematic delivery of instructions to the learners. There are very few Instructional designers available in India, though the trend is changing slowly. More and more people are moving towards the field of instructional designing. This post will probe in to the latest trend in Instructional Designing so do keep looking through this blog.

Teaching strategies, methods and models

Teaching someone is a challenge which teachers always face in their field. To achieve this challenge successfully and to find more satisfaction in teaching, a teacher can use different strategies. A teacher can be more powerful and thoughtful in their teaching. There are many strategies which a teacher can use to help a learner to retain it in a better way and for a longer period. Strategies like collaborative learning, giving students a case study, teaching them through stories, giving them some games like jigsaw puzzles and many more can be added in this list. Strategies which are included here are for face to face learning but nowadays classrooms are going virtual, teachers are replaced by instructors and so strategies are also used for online learning. In this section you can share some new and different strategies which can be used in face to face teaching as well as online teaching. There are many teaching models and strategies given by reputed psychologists which can also be shared in this section. This section will assist you with new strategies and teaching models which will enhance your teaching.

Book Shelf

An instructor always needs to refer to different books which can help in providing knowledge in his/her field of interest. There are many books available online which can be read by downloading the same. In this section the links of online books can be provided which will be helpful to the instructors in their field. You are free to provide the names and authors of books which are related to the feild of instructional designing and essential for instructional designers to read.

Importance of Workshops on Adult Education

When we think about adult education, we often picture out the students schooled yearly at the age of late 60’s or 50’s. Capping with their white hairs, all of them seriously listened to their instructor’s discussion. Often sometimes, this myth is true. Persons who stop their school at the early age and don’t have the right time continuing it during his/her youthful days is considered adult in education when they think of continuing it during his/her present age. Though there are significant reasons, why these people have not inclined their education they still have many chances to continue it. Age doesn’t matter when it comes to education;

Sometimes, we ought to think that individuals with their late age who have not continue their education are those who have not done good in their school before, some maybe true but oftentimes not. Others think that adult education is good only for those who have really not reach their high school or college level which is definitely wrong. There are professionals who involved themselves in classes as their second course, some involved thru it because they need the education for their business or jobs purposes. Most of the instructors of adult education are also at their age level since they can interact with each other professionally.

The workshops are conducted for those adults who are more eager to learn new technologies and things.

Considering the fact that these people are more mature about their environment, there would be a good give and take relationship happen between the educator and the adult students since they both know the surroundings around them, they have a lot of learning from their previous experiences and it would be a good factor when they share it in the workshop with regards to their discussion. One good advantage of conducting workshop on adults because they are more serious than those youthful age, they share what they know in a professional way and answer questions in a serious way.

The workshop conducted on the adults are related to the introducing emerging technologies , theories and systems to them and whatever learning they get, they applied it to their every day leisure or applied it planning to venture their own business. Whatever they learned from the workshopl they used it in so many good ways. Much good if the adult student is professional in his current life and just taking the workshop because he/she just wanted to enhance more his knowledge and to learn new trend in life, these people have much more knowledge and are expected to have more shares in workshop and participation. Adult ones were sometimes ashamed going back to school because of their late age but for workshop they are always ready to learn .

Evaluation Strategies

Evaluation should be planned well in advance and together with the training or course design and planning. It should meet the needs of the target audience. Evaluation should be planned at every step or level in order to meet the prescribed objectives. Assessment tools are required to guide students, teachers, professionals in setting appropriate goals and objectives.

Proper methods and strategies need to be adopted to ensure that effective evaluation is carried out. This blog will tackle issues realated when evaluating. It will also discuss the strategies and methods you can adopt when planning. It will serve as a practical guide on monitoring and evaluating programs.

Misconceptions about Instructional Design

Instructional Design has been growing at a phenomenal rate in India. Many elearning companies are seeking well bred Instructional Designers. But to a lay man Instructional design is nothing more that designing instruction. Is that what it really is? This posting will take care of all the misconceptions one has about Instructional Design. It will look at the Instructional Design process, strategies involved and many more related news and trends on Instructional Design. So watch this blog!!

Online Learning

Why is learning turning to e? Well for one thing the internet is a platform for everything. The resources available is phenomenal. You can shop online, watch movies, search and even play online. So why should learning be left in the classroom? To be able to reach anyone and everyone and share a wealth of information at any convenient time is the main crux of Online learning. But is online learning all that it is cracked up to be? Well yes here we will discuss how to get the most out of your online experiences. The latest trends and e-learning delivery strategies that have come about in recent years. Stay tuned to this post for its surely going to keep you hooked.

Need for Resaerch in ID

"Educational research is a careful and critical inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles of educational problems"

According to J.W Best research is an intellectual activity which brings to light new knowledge or correct previous errors and misconceptions and adda in an orderly way to the existing corpus of knowledge"

The term 'research and scientific methods' are often used synonymously and research is considerd to be more formal, systematic intensive process of carrying on the scientific method of analysis.

Some Connotation Of Research

Research - A Genuine desire to obtain more information.
C.C Crawford University of southern california writes that "Research is simply a systematic and refined technique of thinking, employing specialised tool,instruments , and procedures in order to obtain adequate solution of a problem than would be possible under ordinary means it starts with a problem , collects data or fact,analyze these critically and reaches decision based on the actual evidence.

Research -A method of critical thinking
Research constitutes a method for discovery of truth which is really a method for the discovery of truth which is really a method of critical thinking.It comprises defining and redefining problems, formulating hypothesis or suggested solutions, collecting , organising,and evaluating Data, making deduction and reaching conclusion, and at last testing the conclusion to determine whether they fit the formulating hypothesis.

Better Utilization of Research Findings

There is much that the social scientist have to do by way of establishing research traditions and helping create expertise in different disciplines. The generation of knowledge in different in different areas of development is bound to induce a climate favourable to the utilization of research.
In particular , attempts have to be made to establish a closer link between the user and the researcher.This will bring about an appreciation of the kinds of research that could be useful to the user and also result in better formulation of research problems, in addition to helping the social scientists to gain credibility in the eyes of the users.