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Instructional Design Forum

Instructional Design Forum

Q In modern academia, more and ore students identify themselves as visual learners--meaning that they retain more information through visual representation rather than hearing or being told answers. Instructional design is very key to explaining processes and step by step procedures required to undertake some form of task. This can range from anything from recipes in a cook book, assembling furniture from IKEA, lecture notes on assignments, to even tutorials in a video game. Describe both THE BEST and THE WORST/Most Confusing or Vague instruction sets you ever encountered and focus on the visuals used (if any) to break down the process and make it more understandable to the audience/user. What elements and visuals did the best one have to make it easier to understand? What elements did the best one lack and how could it have been improved?

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The worst encounter I have had was when I was trying to learn the correct way to cornrow over a youtube tutorial. The youtube channel creator was demonstrating how to cornrow while facing the camera and not giving an up-close view. This was also hard due to not knowing which fingers she is using to finish the product. Her speed was at a normal pace but for people like me who learn visually and slower when needing to crisis croc and need specific instructions, it was going too fast for my liking. Also, because of the way she was filming, the left and rights were getting confusing because she didn't put it into perspective in the same way the viewer would try to demonstrate with the youtube creator.