[Sigia-l] learnings from instructional design

[Heather Hedden]

Hi Mary,

I am wondering if there is any interest in having alphabetical
back-of-the-book style indexes on online instructional content, as one would
have in a printed textbook.

I head the Web Indexing SIG of the American Society of Indexers, which
provides resources on the subject and has a database of freelance indexers
who create browsable HTML indexes.

Heather Hedden
Coordinator, Web Indexing SIG
American Society of Indexers
http://www.web-indexing.org

Hedden Information Management
http://www.Hedden-Information.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary MacDonald" <mary at mmacdesign.com>
To: <ia-academic at asis.org>
Cc: "'Anne E. Macdonald'" <amacdona at suffolk.edu>; "'Lisa C Mayer'"
<lmayer at MIT.EDU>; <lofblakr at gse.harvard.edu>; <sigia-l at asis.org>; "'Beth
Clark'" <clarkeq at bc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 3:31 PM
Subject: [Sigia-l] learnings from instructional design


>
>
> On the ia-academic list, the topics of IA research, publications, and
> practice within the university setting have been discussed.  I have
recently
> had a few conversations with people responsible for instructional design
at
> a couple of Boston based colleges, and would like to invite a discussion
> here that looks at the relationship of these 2 fields.  Please respond to:
> ia-academic at asis.org
>
> Suggested topics for conversation:
>
> 1.  A short history of ID for IAs
> Ideally, we might have people subscribing to this list who could provide a
> short list of ID backgrounder books, articles that would be especially
> helpful for IA education - on the level of IA as practitioner/researcher.
> These resources might help illumine questions such as: How do people
learn?
> How does ID facilitate learning?  What ID practices, methods would be
> helpful to me in my work as an IA (how do the methods change if I am asked
> to develop an online learning application, an informational website, a
> commercial website, a corporate intranet or extranet?)
>
> 2.  Explicit/Implicit learning opportunities presented by web pages
> Whether we are developing web pages for online courses, e-commerce sites,
or
> employee benefits, there are multiple nuances of learning present that we
at
> a minimum might reflect upon.  Explicit learning opportunities might be
> defined as being present in web pages whose content is instructional in
> nature (i.e. online courseware, or commercial quizzes - Are you ready for
> retirement?
>
http://personal.fidelity.com/misc/buffers/smartquiz/smartquiz.shtml?refhp=cp
> or general informational pages - about us...)  Implicit learning
> opportunities might be defined as all other pages and page design elements
> whose function may not have been designed as instructional but simply as a
> result of existing, provide an opportunity for cognitive processing and
> assimilation.  I make the distinction here between explicit and implicit
> because I believe there is a value in understanding the intentions of our
> designs and how those intentions impact the end user.  If we are able to
> identify and name explicit/implicit learning opportunities within our
> designs, I would expect that would foster our development as educators -
> again, whether we are educating students for their attainment of greater
> knowledge or educating customers with the intention of selling a product.
>
>
> If these topics have been previously covered on the SIG-IA list, please
> respond to ia-academic at asis.org with any relevant archive urls.
>
> Thank you-
> Mary
>
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> http://www.marymacdonald.us
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