“the future belongs to thosewho prepare for it”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Malcolm X

“It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail”

Albert Einstein

“Anyone who tries to draw the future in hard lines and vivid hues is a fool. The future will not sit for a portrait. It will come around a corner we never noticed, take us by surprise”

George Emerson

design for contextual learning

web-based environments that

engage diverse learners rod sims elizabeth stork

capella university robert morris university

context

context

a connected worlda mobile worlda technological worldan interactive world

learning place

teacher

learner

classroom

formal participant

formal participantinformal participant

informal participant

design + pedagogy = instructional design

if (instruction = delivery)

and

if (beyond delivery)

then

(beyond instruction)

end if

Analyse Design Develop Deploy Evaluate

instruction

assessment

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mediapreferences

learningstyles

priorknowledge

socio-economiccontext

content

culture

assessment strategies

Analyse Design Develop Deploy Evaluate

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learningstyles

priorknowledge

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what might this look like?

• rather than teacher-defined content, context with learner-defined content

• rather than specific objectives, outcomes emerging from learner (course participant) interactions

• rather than assessment, completion of learning tasks represents successful performance

design for contextual learning

• a strategy that foregoes assumed learner characteristics and attributes and emphasises the benefits of catering to an 'anyone, anywhere' audience

• a case for reinventing common instructional design practices by advocating an approach where design focuses on the individual learner achieving meaningful and situated outcomes from their engagement and encounters with a course of study.

an alchemy of learning

• learners as producers, not consumers

• learners as creators, not watchers