In chapter 6 of Design for How People Learn, Dirksen describes some of the ways to put things discussed in the previous chapters together. Some of the key guiding questions for this chapter were:
Designing for skills is no easy task, but fortunately, there are design strategies that help make it effective and easier for learners to acquire skills. Two of the essential ingredients necessary for skill acquisition is practice and feedback.
Similar to what we talked about in class, having a good understanding of the problem will help you…
This chapter brings up important distinctions in memory and processing and their implications for learning. Memories are formed based on the context and type of information. Humans are active sense makers, not merely robots that regurgitate information. Dirksen…
Dirksen chapters 8 & 9 and Ambrose chapter 3 & 6 talk about the importance of designing for motivation and different learning environments. These are two things that are sometimes overlooked when…
After looking at the problems together in class on Tuesday, our team came together to discuss and map out the problem area on our own. We discovered new problem areas as well as areas we would like to continue exploring. We wanted to focus on the many different stakeholder…
In class today we talked about the 4mat learning theory, developed by Bernice McCarthy. It is a theory that organizes different learning styles to describe a whole range of the learning and communication experience. It is important and relevant to what we are doing with our client, because we have to think about how…
Mastery and transfer is often the goal of learning. Instructors want to bridge the knowledge gap for learners, but it can be difficult to do so when instructors have built up such sophisticated schemas and chunks of information. I have certainly been in a lot of classes…
In How Learning Works, Ambrose et al talk about practice and feedback. Chapter 5 aims to answer the questions, what are the kinds of practice and feedback that are most productive? We know that they are both important, but how should they be implemented in learning settings? According…