About Instructional Design

It's not an information dump

• but that content has to be some where
• it's about the alignment in objectives, practice and assessment
  

What you have to do

• Start with realistic goals about what you want learners to be able to do, not what they need to know
• Start by telling (convincing) learner why it's important
• Create simple, clear, content
• Use multimedia and graphics
• Add context with stories, case studies, experiments
• Create learning opportunities (interactions that help the learner work toward their goals)
• Learning is like skateboarding, it takes practice and you're going to screw up
• You need to model concepts, have examples, have problems (lots of examples and lots of problems are good)
• You make mistakes because your model is not complete, or correct, etc.
• Good concepts are elaborated into an meaningful, rational, with multiple representations, model
• Ask the learner to reflect on what they've learned
• Point the learner to the next step and future possible directions or options so that learners don't think they are done.
  

Environment is one of collaboration