RUNNING HEAD: Reflection on Content Design 1

Reflection on Content Design

By Prof. Jonathan Acuña Solano Friday, May 1, 2015 Twitter: @jonacuso

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Antecedents

As one progresses through the ADDIE model in designing and developing a course,

it is essential to reflect at every stage and evaluate the work one has done so far.

Getting accustomed to the ADDIE phases can indeed guide you through the whole

process to successfully get fruitful results for you, the instructor, and for your

pupils.

As a Community of Practice Reflection for those who are interested in the ADDIE

Instructional Design Model, I hereby evaluate my Action Plan (Blog Post #157)

and my Resource Prototype Development (Blog Post #158).

Thinking of the possibilities of ADDIE, you may consider this as a way of piloting

online courses in online programs. Even this may actually be used in blended or

hybrid learning education.

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My Reflection

After working for about a year with the English Language Fellow from the American

Embassy over here in Costa Rica in 2011, the creation of video media for instructional

purposes was well assimilated and has helped me think insightfully in terms how a

resource can be used to improve student understanding and deeper learning. For this

reason, I am certain that it is in the process of creating an instructional resource prototype

that the real training for us instructors really begins, and the experience we, the trainers,

gain is the most important one.

For any neophyte in media production as educational resources for courses or

programs, we always have to be in the lookout for improvement and analysis [following

the ADDIE model principles]. I would not call myself an expert on media production of

educational resources, but it takes time to develop the competencies needed to become

independent in terms of production and analytical to envision what is needed to help

students learn. Avoid depending on others and try two different things, depending on

what your learning style is:

a. Self-teach yourself as much as you can, so you do not have to depend on others

for any instructional design resource production.

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b. Enroll in MOOCs like in Coursera.Org and help yourself learn more about

instructional design to start developing our expertise.

c. Give it a try! This is what the most important experience of all is. Experimenting

by yourself will teach you lots of things from trials and errors. And don’t give up!

I cannot talk about questions or concerns we instructors can have when carrying

out our action plan to devise the best of the instructional resources for one’s course. The

questions, problems, and the finding of solutions will take place –no doubt-. But this is

the very moment in which all of us learn from ourselves and others to find the best way

out to provide students with the learning they have to accomplish in our courses.