Module 2 Readings

Ryan made a good point in his last blog, about the difficulties of trying to instill change in a system that is resistant to change. I began to think about this in the context of my system project, and I believe that change would be just as difficult to enact there. We become comfortable with routine, and changing that to try something that may or may not work (which is something we must all remember! Yes, we do our best to create instruction that will be beneficial. We are equipped with tools to make us successful, but in the end, only time (and evaluation) will tell how successful we actually were).

One thing that stood out to me in the reading was the diagram from the Rossett reading on Needs Assessment. It's probably the best representation that I've seen to illustrate the relationship between Front End Analysis and the rest of an instructional project. It was a lesson I learned well while working on my IDE631 project. You start with your analysis, but that is hardly the last that you see of it. As you go through each phase of the project, you're forced to think about aspects of the learner that you hadn't considered before. Thus you revisit your analysis, and go back to your learner to gain more information from them. This seems to happen every step of the way, just as it's shown in the Rossett diagram.