Today I learn, today I question (week 8)

 

                         

This week’s lesson is regarding instructional design model, ID model. There are a few popular ID models like Kemp's Instructional Design Models, Merrill first principal etc which are very useful in designing the web based teaching and learning platform. Today’s presenter is Jessica Lim, she shared an ID model which named ADDIE. In  this ADDIE model, 5 phases : analysis, design, develop, implement and evaluate.

Analysis

In this phase, we need to analyse the instructional problem, find out the instructional gaol and objectives. The learners’ prior knowledge and skills are identified.

Design

When designing and instruction model, we need to deal with learning objectives, assessment instruments, exercises, content, subject matter analysis, lesson planning and media selection. We have to be specify and careful when designing the instruction, to make sure the students are able to draw out the intended learning outcome. 

Development

In this phase, instructor create a lesson plan which included with the content that is going to deliver.If e-learning is involved, programmers work to develop and/or integrate technologies.

Implementation

During implementation, the plan is put into action and a procedure for training the learner and teacher is developed.  Materials are delivered or distributed to the student group. After delivery, the effectiveness of the training materials is evaluated..

Evaluation

This phase consists of (1) formative and (2) summative evaluation. Formative evaluation is present in each stage of the ADDIE process. Summative evaluation consists of tests designed for criterion-related referenced items and providing opportunities for feedback from the users.  Revisions are made as necessary.

After the presentation by Jessica, we form a small discussion group to design a road map which consist of what we had learned in these few weeks from beginning of the course. I find this activity is very useful to me because I can finally draw out my own perception on the things we had learned throughout these few weeks.The road map we produced is as below.

                                    

Today I learn, today I question (week 6)

This week’s lesson is about PLE (Personalised Learning ). PLE is a concept of learning where students are given choice for their study and learning, Students have the autonomy to decide what they want to learn and how to learn it. One example is creating blog and write the reflection every week after lesson as we do for this course, students are given the freedom on designing the blog, writing our own thinking after lesson, etc, without guidance from our instructor.

After Pearl’s presentation about PLE, I  have a more clear picture about it. Students will have more enjoyment in PLE because it is considering the individual pupil's interests, needs and abilities, and finding out the best style for each pupil (Good & Brophy, 1990) .With the aid of ICT, students also can learn beyond the class, students will find they are more understand for the lesson. Once they had master in one topic, then only they move to another topic. Unlike our education system now, the students have to follow the syllabus, some of the students are unable to follow the lesson because everyone’s learning pace is different, when they have problems for the basic, they will not be able to do the more advance topics, for example, if students can not perform calculation on division, students will not be able to solve problems in the chapter of linear equation.

There are many activities we have done in class are consider PLE, such like essay writing, students’ power point presentation, students gave comments on the video they watched, debates, drawing, designing for the NIE magazine and so on.

To conclude, PLE is a potential approach for meeting future educational needs and may provide new alternatives that foster learning capacity among individual learner.(Bentley and Miller, 2004). As educators, we should facilitate our students so the can have the full autonomy on creating his/her own learning ground.