Rapid Instructional Design: Learning ID Fast and Right, 3rd Edition

Chapter 11

New Design Applications

............As we already noted, the field of instructional design never stops moving or growing. The “old” standards such as e-learning and virtual classrooms, the older standards like linear video and multimedia, even the oldest ones such as face-to-face classrooms and OJT, are still in use and have their place in a designer's toolkit. However, new deliveries, new technologies, and new conceptualizations of what learning is and does are expanding the possibilities of instructional design every year.

This chapter will provide a brief look at some of those newer aspects, and what an “up-to-date” designer needs to know about them.

FLIPPED CLASSROOMS

We'll start our consideration of the new with a look at an old design, the classroom, with a twist…or perhaps a flip is the better term. In its most basic form, a flipped classroom is a blended approach, and a simple one at that. The learners are given pre-class assignments dealing with the cognitive content of the course that require completion before the class itself. Most of this content is in the form of video-based, PowerPoint–augmented lectures that would normally be given live. During scheduled class time, instead of the lecture, the facilitator leads a discussion on the topics that were presented in the video and engages the learner in various interactions.

As you might guess, the concept of ...