PIDT: Don Ely

Looking Back
From AV to VA
PIDT 20 years on

• Developing studies of trends in the fields
• 1st ERIC study in 1970
• 1984 - Trends in ISD
• 1988 - Trends and Issues
• 1989
• 1992
• 1996
• 2002
• IST is not yet a discipline
• The behavioral science concept of instructional technology is more valid than the phy science concept
• Any statement of philosphy regarding instructional philosophy is tentative
• Seels & Richine 1994 definition
• Ely Definiton 1977
• both of educational technology
• Both defitions come from communications systems and learning theory
• Information processing theory has influenced
• Management theory
• Performance theory
• The field is not qualified for status as a discipline because of eclectic nature
• Being a field rather than a discipline is not a handicap
• Behavioral science
• Psych or learning and instruction  (constructivism  vs behaviorism)
• vs
• Instructional Design (Instructional systems design
• Design is a more powerful influence on learning than the technology
• Constructivism
• What is objective design?
• Technology
• offers the best organizing concepts for the development for the development of the field and its evolution into a discipline
• Technology - Finn & Heinich
• from Galbreith (1967)
• Idealized technology definition guided ISD people
• not practical users
• Professionals cringe at the definiton of technologists as engineers and technicians
• Any statement of philosophy regarding instructional technology is tentative
• Change happens
• It is not negative
• It is the goal of more efficient and effective learning
• Factors likely to alter future philosphy of instructional technology
• Distance education
• Learners becoming responsible for their learning will change designs
• Public acceptance of new information technologies
• new teacher training, reform of education
• Adoption of new information technology as primary vehicles that includes humanistic values
• New wave of programmed instruction will be balanced with increased sensitivity toward the learner
• A philosophy of humanistic technology will develop and influence instructional design

Comments

[Annette Lamb]

I think it was particularly interesting that Don came back to the basics... it's the blend of appropriate approaches with effective, efficient, and appealing organization that really makes the difference regardless of the technology.