Instructional Design

Instructional Design

Completely new science for me. Thanks God ! Alhamdulillah I get a beneficial book about it from the author Mrs Dewi Salma Prawiradilaga. I did not know why she gave her book to me. May be because my book used as example for her explanation about instructional design for distance learning modules.
Mrs Dewi told us to make a good module which contained by materials need to know by readers as a core. Then beside it is should to know materials and nice to know materials.

Her book available at book store by title " Instructional Design Principles" / Prinsip Disain Pembelajaran " published by Prenada Media and Universitas Negeri Jakarta
At this workshop, I met with Abtar Kaur a professor from Open University of Malaysia (OUM) which told me more about making a good Distance Learning Handbook. She gave us some mnemonics lika ABCDS (Audiences, Behavior, Content, Degree, and Situation for performance) to make a good learning outcome.

She described about TASK. Educational achievement that should be gained by learners. They are thinking, attitude, skill and knowledge. Skill and knowledge are the part of cognitive domain and attitude is a part from affective.

She also showed us a clip from a movie about Mr. Jamie Escalante: Stand & Deliver I tried to download it with rapidshare, but unfortunately I can not do that because free user just have a chance to download once for a day. A way Mr Escalante's teaching is very vigour. He represented a teacher as a good role model.

One good role model for instruction is ARCS Model. With this you must grab ATTENTION from your learners. Story telling is very interesting for people. Have you read rider's digest magazine ? The second one is RELEVANT. Make the content relevant for you audiences! Make them CONFIDENT with the materials, add it with facts, analoogies, examples, etcetra. At last give them feeling of SATISFACTION from your instruction.

Gardner Five Minds also suggested by Abtar Kaur as one of teacher's attention before teaching. Those are Discipline, Synthesis, CReative, Respectful and Ethical. If all of our learning and teaching activities contained by these five things, probably we will get a qualified teaching and learning.