Section 7: New Directions for Instructional Design and Technology: Due 12/16/2011

The last section of your textbook discusses the concepts of distributed learning, reusability, rich media and the future of instructional design. Focus on the following for your post:

• From Chapter 28 locate 5 examples of distributed learning. You may pick and choose from the following list.  
• Corporate distributed learning
• Academic distributed learning
• Distributed resource support
• Hybrid classes
• Virtual classes
• Distributed learning based at physical locations
• Distributed learning via virtual institutions
• For-profit distributed learning
• Free distributed learning
• Skills-based training
• Knowledge based learning
• Chapter 29 discusses the concept of reusability. Think back over the courses you've had over your educational career and identify one with poor reusability characteristics. Explain how the course could be redesigned to improve reusability without changing the underlying content.
• Chapter 30 takes a look at using rich media. Find or create a visual for instruction describing its surface and functional features. 
• Chapter 31 discusses the future of instructional technologies in the near future from metadata to nanotechnology. Describe how nanotechnology could be used to improve a specific job or task you are familiar with.  
• And finally! Chapter 32 provides two points of view on the direction of the field - the straight and narrow road and the broad and inclusive road. Which point of view do you agree with and why?