1.8 Case study no. 1: The design of an educational encounter
Here is our first case study. It describes the designing of an educational visit to a doctor and to a patient at home. The substance of the story is from an article (Earl, Everwijn and de Melker, 1980)...
View Article2.4 Referent 2: The nth generation of the specified needs
Think about designing a course for teaching six-year-olds to tell the time. Let digital watches, cuckoo clocks and every other sort of clock chase each other through your mind . . . . Have you ever had...
View Article2.7 Case study no. 2: Fighting forest fires safely
On repeated occasions in 1964 on the shuttle flight between La Guardia airport New York and National airport Washington DC, I was struggling with a course design problem. It seemed relatively simple...
View Article3.3 What choice is there for sequencing the S-R events?
‘Chain’, ‘necklace’, ‘spiral’, ‘network’, ‘hybrid’ — these are the titles we use in the Think Tank workshop for the different methods of sequencing S-R events that a thought-up design can demand. A...
View Article4.3.7 An always avoidable fault
This refers to any breakdown in the relationship between components in referent 2 (the nth generation of the specified needs). Not long ago I was working with a new subject for a new exercise in the...
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