SocProf reviewed Design for How People Learn by Julie Dirksen
Review of 'Design for How People Learn' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This is not a book designed for academic teaching / learning / assessment. However, you will be able to get a lot of good ideas about instructional design nonetheless. The illustrations were a bit overkill, in my opinion, but that's not a big deal.
On the other hand, I was clearly not the audience for this book. It was more designers of the corporate-style e-learning / training (of relatively short duration). Having gone through some of those, they tend to be pretty terrible.
There were some interesting chapters on how people learn. Those sections are useful with any types of learners. But from my perspective, the best practices presented here would not work with academic content to be deployed in term-long courses.
But as I mentioned, you can still get a few good ideas out of the book.
This is not a book designed for academic teaching / learning / assessment. However, you will be able to get a lot of good ideas about instructional design nonetheless. The illustrations were a bit overkill, in my opinion, but that's not a big deal.
On the other hand, I was clearly not the audience for this book. It was more designers of the corporate-style e-learning / training (of relatively short duration). Having gone through some of those, they tend to be pretty terrible.
There were some interesting chapters on how people learn. Those sections are useful with any types of learners. But from my perspective, the best practices presented here would not work with academic content to be deployed in term-long courses.
But as I mentioned, you can still get a few good ideas out of the book.