Highlight the Steps of Planning “Development of Instruction"

Highlight the Steps of Planning “Development of Instruction".

Course: General Methods of Teaching 

Course code 8601

Level: B.Ed Solved Assignment

Answer:

In the fourth step of the Development phase, you elaborate and build the products called for in the Design phase blueprint. The finished product is often called courseware, content, instruction, learning activities, or learning platform.  Developing different forms of courseware, such as activities, media, and concepts requires a certain amount of art and science. It is science as there is plenty of research that shows how people learn best and art because you 

are designing for the human element?

However, you should always concentrate on building learning activities that will give the learners real experience with the skills they need to perform, rather than simply telling and showing them information. Activities are participative learning experiences, such as exercises, role-plays, games, simulations, and reflective surveys that allow the learners to practice and reflect to master a skill.

Storytelling (war stories) and group discussions are also great learning activities as they promote social learning.  Note that learning activities that promote experience should greatly outnumber content that is meant to be read or listened to.

Transforming Content into Experiences

Content that requires reading and listening should be limited so that the learners can spend time with more valuable activities that provide experiences, however, this type of content can be transformed into active learning, rather than passive learning. 

Designing Experiences 

Rather than repeating other content on this site, please read these sections as they provide a lot of good information for designing and developing real learning experiences. Note that they are pretty much independent, so you can read them in just about any order; however, you should start with Introduction to Instructional Design (ID).

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