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Is Rapid Instructional Design Better Than Traditional Instructional Design?

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  by Oni T. Washington  While developing this tutorial on copyright law for one of my grad school classes. I've realized that there are several milestones most instructional designers will reach as a result of their strategic planning. They are:  1) IDENTIFYING THE TARGET AUDIENCE 2) DEVELOPING A STORYBOARD 3) BUILD AN E-LEARNING MODULE 4) WRITE MEASUREABLE AND EFFECTIVE ASSESSMENTS Identifying the target audience  Developing a tutorial of this nature allows for easy identification of the target audience. Since the main focus of the tutorial is copyright compliance regarding instructional designs, our audience is mainly instructional designers. ISD practitioners who are just getting into the field, or do not remember how to apply copyright law to their daily norms, as well as educators, and trainers who find the information relevant. As a marketing teacher, I naturally follow traditional steps of finding a target market. Such as: 1) Define the purpose of the message ...
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How Educators Can Use The RID Model In Their Own Classrooms.

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  How Educators Can Use The RID Model In Their Own Classrooms. by Oni Washington       Imagine spending hours studying something and attempting to learn it, only to have critics greatly minimize its importance by finding tons of faults in it. That's how it feels after reading about how the classic ISD model is being criticized for it's lack of speed, it's time consuming nature, and its tendency to be too narrow in it's cognitive approach. Meier 2020, states that a change is needed regarding the approach to instructional design in making sure it satisfies the goal of being accessible to a wide variety of learners. While also taking into consideration the rapid pace society moves today.  With the RID - Rapid Instructional Design Model, feedback is heralded over reading and skimming written materials. There is also an emphasis placed on activity based learning. Educators should take special consideration to provide feedback quickly to the learner thereby facil...
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