Henry Mintzberg sees management as a balancing act between science, art and craft. His argument is that effective management requires all three and an overemphasis on any one results in dysfunction. This offers some insight for Instructional Design. The debate about ADDIE (see my own view here) seem to revolve around the prescriptive, process based...Continue Reading
I’m at risk of flogging a very dead horse here, but some recent posts from Ellen Wagner (What is it about ADDIE that makes people so cranky?) and Donald Clark (The evolving dynamics of ISD) got me thinking about instructional design process and ADDIE in particular (please don’t run away!). Much of my career has been...Continue Reading
The traditional approach to instructional design has been bruised and battered for some years now. Sometimes the criticism is legitimate and thoughtful and other times it is shallow and faddish. I think one of the genuine concerns is its deconstruction of learning into small learning tasks which are categorized into learning domains using a...Continue Reading
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Here are some popular posts from Tom’s former blog, Performance X Design. Some older posts contain inactive links and unedited formatting while they wait impatiently for him to update them.
