Instructional Design, 2nd Edition

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Summary: Teaching Student's how to Learn, not what to Learn
Review: Beyond the fundamental Systematic Approach to Training process, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation, the authors present proven strategies for teaching students how to learn. Problem-solving, delcarative knowledge, concepts, and principle scenarios are presented. This book is a valuable shelf reference for the K-12 teacher as well as the Instructional Technologist.

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Summary: Excellent source for online coursework
Review: In designing a course and a tutorial for to be taught online for the first time I used this text. I especially found the chapter on the affective component of course design helpful as students are very anxious initally with distance learning. I have subsequently used the book to retool my face-to-face classes. The examples and end-of-chapter sections are useful for new ideas and approaches.

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Summary: Excellent source for online coursework
Review: In designing a course and a tutorial for to be taught online for the first time I used this text. I especially found the chapter on the affective component of course design helpful as students are very anxious initally with distance learning. I have subsequently used the book to retool my face-to-face classes. The examples and end-of-chapter sections are useful for new ideas and approaches.

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Summary: Review of Instructional Design
Review: Information well presente

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Summary: Over priced, nothing new.
Review: The ideas and teachings in this book are just a regurgitation of easily obtainable information available in any Instructional Design publication at an extremely inflated price. I don't know what Patricia Smith and Tillman Ragan think they have here but I should write my own and sell it for a third of the price.

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Summary: Over priced, nothing new.
Review: The ideas and teachings in this book are just a regurgitation of easily obtainable information available in any Instructional Design publication at an extremely inflated price. I don't know what Patricia Smith and Tillman Ragan think they have here but I should write my own and sell it for a third of the price.

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Summary: Prose to Sleep By
Review: This book did have good points, but they drown in a stagnant, dreary pool of monotonous prose that could put the heartiest of readers to sleep. Just imagine wading through page after page of sentences like this: "Closer attention to learners' cognitive processes during declarative knowledge learning has led us to realize that elaboration is a basic process by which links are made with information being received as well as for connecting new information to existing knowledge and structures" (161). Someone please rush the authors a copy of Richard Lanham's "Revising Prose".

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Summary: Prose to Sleep By
Review: This book did have good points, but they drown in a stagnant, dreary pool of monotonous prose that could put the heartiest of readers to sleep. Just imagine wading through page after page of sentences like this: "Closer attention to learners' cognitive processes during declarative knowledge learning has led us to realize that elaboration is a basic process by which links are made with information being received as well as for connecting new information to existing knowledge and structures" (161). Someone please rush the authors a copy of Richard Lanham's "Revising Prose".

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Summary: Excellent ISD Handbook for Grads and Practioners Alike
Review: This is a well-organized and informative ISD textbook. It also serves as a great reference for me as an ISD practitioner. I consider this book a small but quite valuable investment.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent ISD Handbook for Grads and Practioners Alike
Review: This is a well-organized and informative ISD textbook. It also serves as a great reference for me as an ISD practitioner. I consider this book a small but quite valuable investment.