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Tuesday, June 11, 2002
http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=21297 Stop Aiming for Interactivity Will Thalheimer, Ph.D. It’s not that interactivity is a bad idea. It’s just too simplistic to be a useful guide for instructional design. It can even be dangerous. Somewhere in the 1990s, some wizened specter spoke the fabled words, “Go forth ye instructional designers and be interactive.” The logic was sound. Passive learning was known to be deadly--like Salvador Dali’s touch, it left learners limp and exhausted. Active learning was the goal--keep learners awake, keep them engaged in their learning, and make them energized participants. Soon, the scriveners of instructional design canon wrote in unison: Interactivity, interactivity, interactivity. Consultants chanted, professors taught, clients demanded, and instructional designers reinforced themselves with critiques of each other’s interactivity. Who among us today could doubt that interactivity is a universal truth?...
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