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Week 3 - Blog Reflection 2

For week 3, we were asked to reflect on our experience with the instructional design document and our peer review.  The main purpose of this reflection is to write about what we learned, the changes that took place due to our learning, and how we used the feedback.  I was dreading this assignment but one has no choice but to keep moving and doing our best.
I have learned and grown a lot as an instructional designer this week.  Working on the instructional design document has been one of the most challenging and yet rewarding assignments I have ever worked on.  I say this because writing is a weakness of mine and because I have very little experience with the analysis phase of instructional design.  I had to work hard and put in a lot of hours just to get the analysis design document in decent shape.  I must admit, I had issues with just about every section of the analysis document.

The area which I struggled the most was the goals and objectives.  I have read so many documents explaining the difference between the two but for the life of me, my brain could not make the transfer from information to knowledge.  But one single comment left on my document by Dr. Faulkner made a HUGE difference.  The comment said “This is an activity, not an objective (at least how it is written). What do you want them to learn?”  The key word here was ‘learn,’ and what I want my students to learn equals an objective!  With this one comment, I could go back and change about 75% of my goals and objectives.  The website page Difference Between Goals and Objectives (2011) was also very helpful and allowing me to connect the learning activities to the goals and objectives.

All the feedback my professor provided me with was put to good use.  I changed just about everything in my document except for the ‘Technical Requirement’ area.  Although some areas didn’t need as much as work as others, I spent a lot of hours editing the document.  I also feel that I finally understood the difference between assessment and evaluation.  These two concepts also get me confused but I think is because I have seen them used interchangeably.  Unfortunately, my peer review partner had something come up that prevented her from reviewing my document in a timely manner.  I understand, working full-time and going to school full-time is a big challenge.  She did promise to get back to me tomorrow, the last day to do the peer-review.  Either way, I am so glad I communicated with my professor as many time as I did and that he took the time to provide me with feedback outside of what is probably normal with such a large class.  

Difference Between Goals and Objectives. (2011, October 12). Retrieved February 01, 2017, from http://www.differencebetween.net/business/difference-between-goals-and-objectives/

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