Redesigning our Learning Design.

For tutorial this week, we were supposed to pick an LD from lecture and enhance it a little..

this was wat we picked:


The topic on hand was to teach our learners what is being laid out by our finance minister in his Budget Speech. Essentially, we want our learners to know what is in it for Singaporeans this coming financial year and how can we get information about these.

This is our redesigned LD:


After much discussion, we realised that we did not specify any clear tasks or step-by-step assignments for our learners to fulfil their learning objectives. Thus we came up with several new tasks along the way, coupled with the respective resources and support available.

A learning design is particularly useful in mapping out logically the path in which we want our learners to take. I also realised that many times in our educational experiences, our teachers and instructors actually used similar tools to map out our learning process. In my opinion, a similar example would be the lesson plans. It provides us the main topics to cover per week and also provides us resources in terms of readings or websites to supplement our learning.

It is something worthwhile to ponder on shud i become an instructor someday.. =)