Re: Instructional Design and the Internet

Robert Parson (rparson@oise.on.ca)
Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:50:14 EST

Karyn Elizabeth Turnbull <turnbull@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> I am doing a research project about how different people design
> instruction to be posted and/or transmitted over the internet. I am
> currently in an instructional design class using the Dick and Carey
> method, but we are interested in seeing how other methods (they don't
> have to have names!) are implemented.

Karyn,
I am posting this message to the list as well because I thought others
might be interested in how some online courses have been designed. The
two following URLs are links to papers that describe the genesis of two
very different courses. The first is a high performance computing course
in the UK:

WWW'95: Constructing Educational Courseware using NCSA Mosaic and the
World Wide Web
http://www.igd.fhg.de/www/www95/papers/52/www3.html
by J.k. Campbell.

It is a paper from the www'95 conference which has quite a lot of good
information about courses and education on the web.

The second course deals with design, but also a an interesting topic that
might be of general interest for educators.

AusWeb95-Education: "Use of a Web browser for developing investigative
skills", by Russell Pennell and E.M. Deane
http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb95/papers/education4/pennell/
The AusWeb95 conference is also a good source of information on education
and the Internet.

I am presently studying "AusWeb95-Education-Learning-Teaching and
Learning on the World Wide Web" which looks at getting back to
fundemental teaching strategies and how to design with this Internet tool
for educational purposes:
http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb95/papers/education2/alexander/

Good luck in your research
robert

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Robert Parson
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
University of Toronto
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