Instructional Design and Technology:

Instructional Design Learning Theories - IDT100x

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WEEK 8 - Submit Your Final Portfolio

Submitted: 29.11.19

By the end of Week 8, you will be able to:

• reflect on learning theories and complex approaches to learning and describing your approach on creating active learning environments.

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Consider course content (four learning theories and complex approaches). 

• How do you see these theories and approaches as fitting in to learning you will design? 

• Which theories do you feel are most relevant and engaging for your learners and objectives?

• Why? 

• Do you think these theories work in conjunction with each other or in isolation from each other? 

• Explain.

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 Response 

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Discussion 7 Final Reflection

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This course has been a great opportunity for me to re-visit and update my understanding and applications of some of the learning theories that I have been using for a while.
The most exciting moments I have experienced are to do with both the re-affirming and re-aligning of information when researching or applying the learning theories to the required lesson or activity
being development. 

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It's having the opportunity to refresh the educational overview of learning theories and re-discover how these can be applied to new learning situations. Re-defining your tool kit of theories and approaches, that in my experience should be seen and applied as a set of resources that can help you to be flexible and adapt the approach to different educational situations. 

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One of the areas that is directly related to my work is the design and delivery of information in an on-line environment. Connectivism represents a way of moving in a direction that is mindful of past educational approaches and the application of newly found, researched experiences that are more directly addressing the needs of current on-line educational communities. 

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It's certainly a direction that I will be focusing on and investigating as this approach become more relevant when developing educationally equitable environments and we endeavour to reach wider audiences.

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Thank you to all for the time you have spent reviewing my work and wish you all very successful futures with your design work. 

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The following are discussions of Connectivism and possible applications.

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October – 2008
Connectivism: Learning theory of the future or vestige of the past?
Rita Kop
University of Wales Swansea
Adrian Hill
Open School BC, Canada
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/523/1103

Connectivism as a Digital Age Learning Theory
Betsy Duke, Ginger Harper, and Mark Johnston, Kaplan University, USA
https://www.hetl.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/HETLReview2013SpecialIssueArticle1.pdf