Coffeebeans’ Dilemma – An Instructional Analysis Read “Coffeebeans’ Dilemma” here. It’s clear that Coffeebeans wants Froth to understand that she likes non-vegetarian food. Assuming that Froth isn’t feeding vegetarian food to Coffeebeans, just to spite the dog; but because she…
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The IDEAL – Topic: Assessment Rubrics
What is an Assessment Rubric? Before I explain this apparently bulky term, let us answer the following two questions. Question 1. What is 2 + 2 =? 52 4 -24 2 Question 2. Illustrate the foot-in-mouth disease with two examples…
Training Success and Meeting the Objectives!
Training Evaluation is a mystery yet unresolved. What is it that defines training effectiveness? How practical is the Kirkpatrick Model of Training Evaluation? or… does it all boil down to this? Conclusion: A training is successful when all your objectives…
Froth Experiments with Learner Motivation.
Froth and her cat meet Sloth for lunch. So though Froth’s program managed the first three parameters of the ARCS Model of Learner Motivation, it failed to Satisfy the learners…or so thinks Britney, the cat.
The IDEAL – Topic: Active Learning
Active Learning Active learning refers to the methods that engage or involve learner in the learning – thus, moving from the plain old lecture-based sessions to more interactive and collaborative ones. (Charles C. Bonwell and James A. Eison, 1991). Thus…
Past Experiences, Schema-building, Pattern-Recognition, and…?
Look at the following string of numbers and letters. 82TT9JXDUQNE Does it remind you of something? Yes? What does it remind you of? If you were born in 1982, it’s possible that the first thing that comes to your mind…
The IDEAL – Topic: The Algo-Heuristic Method
The Algo-Heuristic Theory or the Algorithmic – Heuristic Theory defines three types of instructional rules. Descriptive rules – describe what the process is. Prescriptive rules – describe what should be done. Permissive rules – provide alternatives to the prescriptive rules.…
A Short Story – Dushyant & Shakuntala – Why Love kills Logic?
Shakuntala absently rotated the ring that Dushyant had given to her with his undying promise of love. She couldn’t think of a reason why Dushyant won’t keep his promise, unless of course, he didn’t really care for her. She tried…
e-learning for Corporate Skill-building – The Possibilities
We all know that in the long run e-learning is less expensive. It is less expensive because of the following reasons: Multiple Roll-Outs No Distribution Costs Reduced Trainer Time Reduced Trainee Time Standardization of Quality I accept it, you accept…
The IDEAL – Topic: Criterion Referenced Instruction (CRI)
Criterion-referenced instruction is built around the premise that a learner should be able to fulfill the criterion of meeting the learning objective. So it focuses upon designing a training program or a course in a way that it enables all…