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This week, we learned Three Principles for Managing Essential Processing, I would like to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of these three principles.

First, the segmenting principle segmented realistic fragments, it can help learners better focus on different learning contents, but they may fail to grasp different learning fragments due to too many segmentations.

Second, the pretraining principle will introduce the content of the course in advance, which can pave the way for learners’ thinking and help learners master the content of the course in advance. However, when learners already know what they are going to learn, it may make them less interested or even lose interest in learning, which will lead to poor learning outcomes.

Third, the modality principle can help learners better participate in the teaching environment. At the same time, the teaching of spoken text and graphics can effectively improve learners’ interest in learning. Nevertheless, excessive situational teaching may affect students pay too much attention to it and it could reduce the efficiency of learning.

After reading this week’s post, I have analyzed why the following characteristics in Instructional design models are important:

Instructional design is learner-centered: Learner and his/her performance are the focal points. Teaching design should be learner-centered because different learners have different learning styles. If teachers want learners to learn knowledge to the maximum extent, they should develop teaching styles suitable for learners.

Instructional design is goal-oriented: Well-defined goals are essential. Learning without goals will lead to low learning efficiency, so it is very important for learners to set goals.

Instructional design typically is a team effort. This process usually involves teamwork. If only one person designs the teaching method, the designed teaching method will have many shortcomings. It will be suitable for most learners to sum up the teaching experience and work out the specific teaching method together. Experience plays a very important role in teaching design.