IDCWC Online Learning Interactions - A PREVIEW

Welcome to the preview of IDCWC Online Learning Interactions. In this preview, we present five of the more than 100 learning interactions that make the IDCWC course unique and effective. They make this course special, they help you feel comfortable, they reach out of your monitors to understand you, and they enable you to master the concepts discussed.

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IDCWC Online - Sample Interactions (Click the links given below to read about these learning interactions and experience them.)
	1: Bloom’s Taxonomy
	2: The Three Approaches to Instructional Design
	3: A Day in Revathy’s Life
	4: Experiencing Dale’s Cone of Experience
	5: Three Perspectives on Instructional Design

(A Closer Look at IDCWC Online Course)

Let's begin by understanding learning interactions and the concepts that they are built upon.

What are Learning Interactions?
According to Gagne's nine events of learning, "guiding learning", "eliciting learning", and "providing feedback" are the three important events that ensure that a course achieves its objectives. They help the learner understand, retain and apply the concepts taught.

The IDCWC Online course ensures that each competency covered in the course has corresponding learning interactions that guide learning through cases and scenarios, elicit learning through interesting contextual exercises, and provide directional and constructive feedback.

The following five sample learning interactions have been taken from different modules and lectures. The course content, which is divided into six modules, is covered through lectures. Each lecture has HTML content, which introduces and explains the concepts; embedded learning interactions (such as those given in the samples) that help you assimilate the learning better; and a non-graded assessment that enables you to measure your own learning. The whole course contains more than hundred such learning interactions; each designed to bring out the best in you.

IDCWC Online Samples

Sample 1: Bloom’s Taxonomy                                                        To Samples
The lecture that contains this interactive explains Bloom's Taxonomy using examples presented through other learning interactions that "guide learning." After the concept is explained, this interactive presents you an opportunity to apply your understanding of the different levels of cognitive learning to short scenarios. As instructional designers your ability to apply Bloom's Taxonomy in course creation will determine the strength of your course. This learning interaction also provides intelligent and relevant constructive feedback for your responses, thus buttressing your knowledge as you interact with it.

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Sample 2: The Three Approaches to Instructional Design:           To Samples
The lecture that uses this learning interaction to help you review your learning, explains the three most widely used approaches to instructional design - behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism. In this learning interaction, you read the explanations of the three theories given by Amit and Ruby; then select the explanation that you agree with. You then determine the correctness of your response and receive "constructive" feedback, which reinforces your understanding even further.

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Sample 3: A Day in Revathy’s Life                                               To Samples
According to andragogy, adults learn best when they experience the need to learn. The learning interaction "A Day in Revathy’s Life" underlines the need to learn instructional design while providing you a glimpse into the life of an instructional design professional who works with an eLearning organization. Though instructional design is and should be used in creation of all kinds of content, it is most used for creation of eLearning content.This learning interaction also introduces you to some of the terms that are associated with content development..

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Sample 4: Experiencing Dale's Cone of Experience                    To Samples
Dale's cone of experience provides the instructional designer a handy toolbox, which helps fashion activities and exercises depending on the mode of learning and level of retention desired for a concept. The lecture that employs this learning interaction to elicit learning and provide feedback, introduces you to Edgar Dale's cone of experience and explains it in detail. It then uses this learning interaction to reinforce your learning. This learning interaction provides examples for each learning activity to guide you; then gives you an opportunity to apply your understanding; and finally gives you detailed constructive feedback for each learning activity listed by Dr. Edgar Dale.

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Sample 5: Three Perspectives on Instructional Design               To Samples
The IDCWC Online focuses on helping you become a complete instructional design professional. It begins from the basics and builds your knowledge not only vertically but also laterally. When we introduce you to instructional design, we provide you a real-life exposure through views of people who are associated with different stages of the ID process. This learning interaction helps you understand why different people understand and explain instructional design differently. Real-life connect is the backbone of the IDCWC Online course and learning interactions such as these enable you to formulate your understanding on the solid ground of reality.

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A Closer Look at IDCWC Online Course:

The IDCWC Online is different from any other online course. It is a course that understands its audience and motivates you to learn. It implements all facets of instructional design, through creative and highly interactive activities and scenarios. It appreciates the need to learn instructional design at the analysis and synthesis levels, as instructional designers are expected to synthesize their knowledge of instructional design with that of the audience and content to create learning material.

The IDCWC Online course ensures that each competency covered in the course has corresponding learning interactions that guide learning through cases and scenarios, elicit learning through interesting contextual exercises, and provide directional and constructive feedback. (click to view IDCWC Online's sample interactions)

A course can be expected to enable creation or synthesis only if it imparts learning at analysis and synthesis levels. The IDCWC online course does exactly this. Following are the features through which the course ensures that you become a confident instructional designer.

This course is designed to interact with you at an intellectual level that an instructional designer needs to be at. It lays the instructional design framework for you, and then provides you the tools that you can use to create effective courses for any audience and on any subject. It exposes you to the magic of instructional design, which can make your course or trainings outshine those that are created on purely intuitive basis.