Sunday, October 14, 2007

Instructional Design for Flow in Online Teaching


Instructional Design for Flow in Online Teaching: The Art of Instructional Design
New tutorial from eLearn Magazine
Instructional Design for Flow in Online Teaching: The Art of Instructional DesignBy Sandra C. Ceraulo, Ph.D.

This tutorial explains how the process of designing instruction can be a creative and enjoyable artistic experience for the online teacher and for the instructional designer. Since many online teachers create their own course materials, the online teacher and the instructional designer are often the same person. An enjoyable creative activity in which the task to be accomplished is seen as a challenge has been termed a “flow” process by well-known creativity researcher, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. This tutorial gives objectives that instructional designers can use to answer the question: How can instructional design become an exhilarating, creative, and fulfilling job rather than mundane work filled with tedium and anonymity?
The full article is available at http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage/sub_page.cfm?section=4&list_item=14&page=1

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