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  1. Oct 2017
    1. The goal is to foster models that empower faculty with a range of tools to address the varying needs of students from all backgrounds.

      This is an important goal.

    2. Kiron, a Belgium-based social startup, is modeling an innovative application of this trend, focused on enrolling refugees into higher education courses, free of charge.

      This seems like a great idea.

    3. Kiron, a Belgium-based social startup, is modeling an innovative application of this trend, focused on enrolling refugees into higher education courses, free of charge.

      This sounds like a great program

    4. One key takeaway is for institutions to incorporate the designs into their vision and mission statements as a way to ensure the use of a variety of digital learning platforms is a part of the universities’ long-term guidance and developmental plan.7

      The university needs to keep up with all the changes in technology.

    1. Knowledge management is one of the most recent trends to have affected the field of instruc- tio

      I think I need to know more about knowledge management.

    2. nother factor that affected the field during the 1990s was the growing interest in construc- tivism, a collection of similar views (labeled, by some, as a theory) of learning and instruction that gained increasing popularity throughout the decade. The instructional principles associ- ated with constructivism include requiring learners to (a) solve complex and realistic prob- lems; (b) work together to solve those problems; (c) examine the problems from multiple perspec- tives; (d) take ownership of the learning process (rather than being passive recipients of instruc- tion); and (e) become aware of their own role in the knowledge construction proce

      This learning theory is so much different than behaviorism. Behaviorism is mostly about how a teacher teaches, constructivism is more about how learners are responsible for their own learning.

    3. A factor that did have a major effect on instructional design practices in the 1980s was the increasing interest in the use of microcom- puters for instructional purposes.

      In the 1980s, I wonder if educators and psychologists realized how much influence computer technology would have on instructional design.

    4. the United States military adopted an instruc- tional design mod

      It seems like most of the time these models and techniques have been used mostly by the military before they are used widely in education.

    5. ystems approach. In 1954, B.F. Ski

      behaviorism - learning theory

    6. d by

      Gagne is important to learning theory

    7. he field of instructional design and technol

      how instructional design becomes a field of practice

    1. Will the impact of media on instruction be greater in the future than it has been in the p

      Yes, I think it will.

    2. Many reasons ha

      okay - here's the answer to my earlier question

    3. By the mid-1960s, much of the interest in using television for instructional purposes had abate

      Why did people lose interest?

    4. 1920s and 1930s, a number of text- books on the topic of visual instruction were written

      the beginning of using this to teach?

    5. instructional media has been defined as the physical means via which instruction is pre- sented to learne

      Good definition of instructional media, which was used before instructional design.

    6. he first school museum was opened in St. Louis in 19

      wow - this has been around a long time

    7. (a) design, (b) development, (c) utilization or implementation, (d) management, and (e) evalua- tion, often associated with the field; and adds a sixth category, (f) analy

      These can be used when writing the definition in a paper