Week 4

For this week's lecture, we were taught "Learning Designs".

I first heard of the idea of learning design back in army when i was an instructor back in the basic military training school where we taught recruits basic soldiering skills.

We were given piles and piles of training manuals that were loaded with information that we were supposed to teach the recruits.

And most of these chunks of information were fitted and "designed" in such a way that recruits ultimately reach learning objectives.

However, i learnt that Learning Designs is more than that..

Learning design is actually a multi-dimensional approach that involves Tasks (clearly defined actions for the learner to do), Resources (stuffs/info that learners have access to to achieve their tasks) and Support (basically feedback from instructors, fellow learners etc).

This structure of a designed learning gives the instructor a clear and logical flow of every aspect of the learners' learning process.

In my opinion, applying this basic structure of learning design is a good way to start when one decides to teach someone about something new.