FROM A VIRTUAL REALITY BOOK TO A PRACTICAL guide TO INSTRUCTional Design

Mustapha El Miloudi:

Diversity enhances learning, promotes innovation, and broadens understanding and outlook. Diversity allows the group to share fresh viewpoints coming from a variety of backgrounds. It is important for instructional designers to recognize such elements and characteristics of target learners.

Pauline Jordan:

A design is the visualization of a functional product based on planning and research. Many design disciplines follow the same methodology from different perspectives; when united, all these disciplines enrich the concept and the product. Likewise, this diversity in the instructional design field will result in an enhanced approach, strategies, and learning experience.

Mustapha El Miloudi:

"Practice makes perfect" is used frequently by both instructional designers and educators. However, what kind of practice makes the learner perfect and how much practice is the right amount? How can we make sure practicing the same material over and over again does not make students feel bored and disengaged?

Pauline Jordan:

Use slides with all text narrated by the instructor rather than highlighting the topic's key points. Utilize distracting media that does not relate to the subject (noise). Use of vocabulary not familiar, relevant, or related to the learner's demographics.

Mustapha El Miloudi:

Instructional designers are not just cookie-cutters whose sole purpose is to create learning materials to address learning styles, but more importantly to ignite learning and passion and to inspire all learners.

Pauline Jordan:

Education takes place everywhere at any time and could be formal or informal. If we work in the formal educational field where either intrinsic or extrinsic motivators emerge from this environment, then our passion is generated by those motivations. My intrinsic motivation is my younger self; my learning journey story will not repeat itself under my instructional designer's watch!