Attempts have been forwarded to build instructional and learning approaches that account for these differences. Contemporary literature also suggests that adults prefer to assume considerable responsibility for their own learning. Furthermore, this course will concentrate on potentials of the constructivist view toward adult learning and its implications for designing instruction. Distance students may take this course from the beginning of October - end of November. In our information-rich society the design of information is a more critical factor to effective communication than ever before.
Instructional design is a special form of information design.
Typically, the aim is to help people do or know something new. The context is often, but not always, an educational one. There are many instructional design theories to assist people in designing instructions. In this course students are asked to create two quite different types of instructions. One of these is a traditional teacher-led lecture of about 20 minutes.