Week 4

Hello,

Based on the readings and Trip O'Dells interesting information of his work, there seems to be a huge difference between instructional design and interaction design. The process of the design share more similarities then the actual design itself. First off, when you think of instructional design, you tend to think of a lesson being taught. The learners are being taught how to do something. Think of a one way street, where information is being taught one way where the teacher is teaching and the learner is learning. We can distinguish the learners from the teacher. Whereas interaction design, is a learning process that requires participation. In order to learn the material, you must be psychically doing something. The process goes back and forth from the learner to the educator. Think of a two way street. One going one way and the other going the other way. Think interaction and participation. While the design elements are different, the process of the two are very similar. In order to achieve a certain learning goal, there has to be a process of in which there is a specific need. A need that needs to be full filled in order to achieve learning objective. With instructional design and interaction design process, you must find a target audience. Then you would have to analyze their performance which will determine the training need. As you can see process is similar but design is totally different.

The qualities that instructional and interaction designers have in common is that they are sharing the quality of learning. Both exhibit different learning styles but are still considered educators. One way that they are different is that, depending on the learner, one might be ale to learn better then the other. One method of learning could be better then the other. This all depends on the learner.