Wrap up my PLE Blog

Since it’s the end of this semester, I want to wrap up everything to summarize what I learned and my feeling about things I learned in this course.

First of all, the most impressive thing that I learned in this course is how creating your own ISD model based on an instructional design context. Although the process of creating my own ISD model is tough, but it’s pretty interesting. As for myself, the ADDIE model I learned from IDE 631 impressed me so much. The logic of ADDIE is very clear and it’s easy to follow and practice. Therefore, every time when I see other ISD model, I would like to compare it with ADDIE automatically. And if the new model I learn is lack of some aspects in ADDIE, I feel it’s not comprehensive and completed, and needs to make implementation. And then, when I create my own ISD model, I can see the shadow of ADDIE in it. But there are also some differences in it. In my model, I paid more attention to the communication and diffusion of different components, and these are what impressed me most from this course. Although my model is a more systematic process, I still see the connection and the influence between each component important. And each step in the model will make change and influence to the other ones. What I am very curious about creating this model is that how is will work in the real world. Since everything I create is based on what I learned form books and articles but very limited working experience. So, I am not sure whether it is practical and operational. I always think that the real practice is very important and sometimes I learn more and better in the real work rather than books.

When talking about the Blog PLE, I had a very struggling time up load something weekly. However, after the whole semester, when I look back what I did in my blog, I feel a kind of accomplishment, because I can see something really useful that I may forget soon if I didn’t put it here. Also, I can see the process that how I create my ISD model, and how my thoughts were changing. And everything in my PLE is done in a very casual way that makes no pressure to me. In sum, instructional design is a very interesting project that I do want to put my model into practice and then modify it as a valid and useful one.