Week 4 Lectures - Learning Design

The learning design is a very crucial component of e-learning.

In the reading, "Mapping pedagogy and tools for effective learning design", a number of pedagogies and approaches were quoted. I have learnt that a better articulation and mapping of different pedagogical processes, tools and techniques, will provide an approach that is more reflexive and consistent with practitioner's theoretical perspectives on learning and teaching.

As i've learnt from the lecture, the learning objectives and the e-leanring tools are supposed to work hand in hand, with the learning design playing a complementary role towards the specific learning objectives.

I personally feel that with this whole idea of having a learning design seem to over complicate the whole idea of learning. It is difficult to design one programme that can fulfill everyone's standard of learning. In the first place, isn't learning supposed to be the responsibility of the student?

Most importantly, whatever plans the teacher has for his student often does not end up the perfect way he pictures it.

My experience relief teaching had given me a brand new insight on designing a perfect learning design to facilitate learning. No doubt i had put in lots of effort planing my classes and attempting to make lessons interesting, but like the more senior teachers put it, the students simply do not appreciate it.

And the benefits you picture that comes with your lesson plan, in most cases, do not happen.

It isn't easy being a teacher is it?