Elliott Masie is an instructional design guru-founder of the MASIE Center, and essentially the go to guy when it comes to cutting edge learning development and best practices.
LearningTown is a huge online forum that brings together people from all walks of the instructional design and technology industry. Members have individual profile pages and use the site to network, participate in threaded discussions, message each other, share resources, and join groups of like minded professionals. As part of a class activity in Dr. N's eLearning Concepts and Techniques course, we all joined the site and did some perusing and investigating.
There are tons of interesting discussions on nearly any topic related to instructional design and technology you can think of, but the one that stuck with me the most was a question posed by Elliott Masie himself: Do We Need A New Instructional Design Model?
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Various professionals talk here about the "real world" of instructional and course design, what works, what doesn't, and how the industry is changing. It's a great way for students and professionals to keep a finger on the pulse of the industry, pose questions to a large community, or just read a lot of interesting opinions and resources.
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Well Jenna thanks for this interesting posting about "Do we need new Instructional Design Models"?
What i feel about this specific topic would be a "Yes" and a "No" or "maybe" or it strongly depends a lot on the type of instruction one is developing and also lot depends on the client.
At the CAC this year there was one gentleman i don't want to name this person. We had a good debate on this subject, his argument was "i know the stuff and have similar design in place then why should i design?"
"i can start with development". I was in agreement with this person because a business don't want to waste money and time on something which is already existing and can fit into the solution. So from my perspective i can say a design model is necessary only when you need a complete restructuring of the problem or start something from scratch.
Also one more thought to this topic is do we need new models? This would again depend on the situation or the problem itself.
For example if an existing model has repeatedly failed to entice the learners or the company does not benefit from the existing model a new model here should be a good fit. It is more like marketing a product by placing it from a different angle or perspective. Like a brand of Automobile manufacturer currently showing on television their product to be environment friendly with less emissions trying to capture the market share by performing the repositioning strategy. To sum up my point there is no one fixed solution to a problem, if there are recurring failures then a new instructional design model must solve the problem or else one can use the existing models or if one has a sound model in place can start with development, it entirely depends on the nature of the problem.
Thanks for the comment, VJ. I tend to agree with you- there's no "one size fits all." There might the right model for the job, or maybe a model isn't called for at all- it's all dependent on what you're doing, the goals, and how you plan to get there.
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