NDLI: Using revolution, evolution, randomness and dead-ends in Educational Design

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Kennedy, I.G.
Copyright Year	2006
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Electr. & Inf. Eng., Witwatersrand Univ., Johannesburg (Kennedy, I.G.)
Abstract	To think about how educational design will evolve in the future, we need to first analyse its previous evolution. The paper draws lessons for progress in the continuing educational design of successful courseware. Educational design is here the ongoing analysis of educational needs and the systematic development and refinement of educational courseware. The paper considers what irritants make courseware successful. To do so it analyses the irritants at work in producing courses that have been successful in that they have survived and are in international demand. It analyses the development and refinement of successful courseware as being directed by the irritant mechanisms of revolution, evolution, randomness and dead-ends. Educational design of courseware has progressed via these four irritants. Revolutions in the process of educational design have included the introduction of new paradigms, hardware and software. Evolutionary pressures have included catering to student's feedback and catering to the needs of diverse students. Random factors included the different educational environments in which the courses were presented. Progress has also been made through the discarding of dead-end tools. The paper reviews the current development tools that survived and hints at those to come. The author takes the safe viewpoint that future tools will be similar but more advanced in producing tomorrow's tools for educational design. The paper recommends that universities adopt best-practice development, which includes using evolution, revolution, randomness and eliminating dead-ends to succeed in the future production of high quality courseware of international standard. Universities must allow time, space, money and other resources for experimenting, feedback, buffeting, simmering, expansion and future best-practice
Starting Page	161
Ending Page	165
File Size	5546693
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1424404053
DOI	10.1109/ITHET.2006.339760
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2006-07-10
Publisher Place	Australia
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Courseware Industrial training Process design courseware development Defense industry Feedback Collaboration Educational design Educational institutions Wikipedia Proposals Design optimization
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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