eJournal Week 3

Analyzing Learners

Last week’s journal entry focused on analyzing context and this week’s reading discussion probably gave you additional insights about the broader context than the system or organization that you are designing for. This week, focus more specifically on analyzing the learner population that you will target with your instructional design. You’ll find more specific information on the key considerations in analyzing learner characteristics on page 25 in The Instructional Design Knowledge Base. Feel free to find additional sources that describe the learner characteristics you need to analyze.

Special note: You should do some research to gather information for this analysis and include links or attachments of the sources that inform your analysis in your journal entry.

My situation feels different than most others in our class. Because I am going to teach music I don’t feel that most of the models work as well for me. I think the best one I came across was the Fleming’s Vark Model. This model seems to work because it works on all levels of the rhythm exercises that will take place in the lessons. Students learn best buy:

Visualize – they can see it and understand it

Aurual – they need to hear it to understand it

Read/Write – they need to write or read it to understand it

Kinesthitic – they need to feel it to understand it

Some of these will definitely overlap, and hopefully by the end of the course all of them will be used to understand rhythm.