Well, it has been 17 years since I received my Masters Degree in Instructional Design and Techonogy from the University of Iowa!\u00a0 Now enrolled in this class at Boise State, I realize that I hadn’t been doing much literature reading in the ID area in quite some time!<\/p>\n
As I was reading through the Games and Simulations in Online Learning<\/u>\u00a0 text, it was good to see the names I remembered so well…Reigeluth (now and Schwartz, what happened to Stein?), Merril, Gagne, Chohen and Ball, Piaget, Gardner, Kolb, and especially, Alessi — my former professor at the University of Iowa.\u00a0 There were some new names and more recent dates, but I felt a little better that the field had not been totally replaced by new theories!<\/p>\n
What was I doing all these years while I wasn’t reading ID journals?\u00a0 I guess I was learning Visual Studio.NET, passing the CCNA exam, and video podcasting!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I started to read the Learning by Doing<\/u> book first for two reasons:\u00a0 I could immediately download a e-Book for $13 more dollars, it came to my door first.\u00a0\u00a0 I really do prefer the hard-copy of the book to the e-book.\u00a0 Don’t know if that will ever change!\u00a0 I was reading it sequentially, even when the author suggested I had multiple paths I could choose.\u00a0 Then, I thought I would throw caution to the wind and actually follow a path of my interest.\u00a0 After all, he had given me “permission!”\u00a0 That was such a refreshing change.\u00a0 I did eventually come back to the next chapter in sequence, but did “enjoy the ride” pursuing my interests more in depth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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