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Originally written for the class LTEC 5030 Foundations of Learning Technologies for Dr. Amy Greene at the University of North Texas. It has been revised for LTEC 5210 Instructional Systems Design for Dr. Beth Dolliver. Philosophy of Learning Defining what learning is, remains an elusive target.  Many of the adages and rules of thumbs that instructors use are often contradictory and oversimplified.  This essay will try to encapsulate the taught this author’s limited teaching experience as given him on the topic of learning. In an attempt to stay within the parameters of this paper, at the risk of oversimplifying things, it could be said that that the brain is modular.  One metaphor of the brain would be that of an iPhone. In an iPhone, several desperate applications doing wildly different processes are running in at the same time.  In a person’s mind “different applications can have different and contradictory beliefs in them” (Kurzban, 2011) .  A...

I am excited to restart this blog.  This blog, like my previous entries, is for my graduate school classes at the University of North Texas.  These entries are for LTEC 5210 Instructional Systems Design.  These entries must around 400 words. Assuming I post the prompt, I will not count that as part of my 400 words. Nor are the words in this section.  Go out into the world (e.g. grocery store, mall, etc.) and locate two examples of instructional design in which you, the viewer/reader, are expected to learn something. What were the goals of the instruction? How effective was it? What are three things you learned that you are not likely to forget?  Dallas Running Club Orientation I recently joined the DRC (Dallas Running Club) to train for a half marathon. The orientation process for their training program is an excellent case study in instructional design. First, volunteers run the DRC, so while I might be critical of their instructional design practi...