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CSCL = Computer Supported Collaborative Learning

Instructional Design = Process and steps and methods that guide and provide structure, mainly content to support teacher activities

• Moving from a behaviourist to a constructivist approach.
• Increase the chances of success in the teaching-learning process.
• Structuring the process of learning and focusing on activities
• Content + Teachers + Learners + Activities
• Complex field that requires a methodology to create new materials at the very least
• Learning design can support and make more explicit the process elements and the structural elements
• Needs to allow for creativity, improvisation and quality
• Scripting = the idea of guiding and provide scaffolding
• Continuum required that can allow for strict instuctional design through to an improvised creative environment
• Allows for personalisation of learning
• Need efficient tools and concrete practices that can be followed

References:

John Pettit and Yannis Dimitriadis. (2009). Yannis Dimitriadis Transcript. Available: https://learn2.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=553247. Last accessed 30th March 2015.