Instructional designers have been
working on designing contents for some years to now although the profession is
not defined that much popular in different areas of the world.
There may be a
popular perception that Instructional designers work with online learning alone
either teaching online or designing contents for online learning. In real
situation, people should be aware that Instructional designers deal with instruction.
They design the learning content for universal audience i.e. both face to face
classrooms and online ones. They work according to the learning theories and cognitive
principles to ensure that the learning goal is reached as planned. From that
Introduction, I believe that people will be somehow aware of instructional
design and instructional designers on how important is the profession.
In the 21st century,
Instructional designers have been running with technology to ensure that the content
is designed in proper manner in terms of learning styles, learning theories and
cognitive load. For example, in my early learning history, I just learned
because I was supposed to learn and for concepts that looked to be difficult to
get captured, I used to repeat and repeat in writing until it gets into my
head. I did not have any idea related to information processing theory and how
brain works in retaining new information. It is the task of instructional designers
now to deal with the problem like what I experienced personally. As early years
termed important for learning but children often make cognitive gains in very
complex environments but such cognitive gains have a habit of diminishing over
time.
The Instructional designers need to
understand how the brain works in order to design the content that hits the
objectives for the target audience. As Every designer aims at delivering the
content that will enforce the information to the learners in a long-term memory,
they may be advised to use underlined meanings, image visuals, animations etc.
Through the researches made, Instructional designers will be better at connecting
the materials with the information processing theory.
References
Ormrod, J., Schunk, D., &
Gredler, M. (2009). Learning theories and instruction (Laureate custom
edition). New York, NY: Pearson.
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