Communication Implications

Implications:

Communicate with diverse learners: disabilities, age, gender, culture, learning styles.
Language appropriate for instructional level
Interactive lesson with appropriate feedback
Allow for learner control

Implications of communication theory for learning:

Words are more flexible than pictures
Print/pictures are more durable than speech
Pictures are more memorable than words
Color directs attention, differentiates ideas; does not affect learning directly
Mental processing uses limited information
Learning is facilitated by meaning (constructivist)

Implications of communication theory for delivery selection:

How does communication theory relate to instructional design?

Learner and context analysis – understanding background and knowledge of the receiver.
There is a reason they are not “getting it.”
Evaluation – checking to see if message was decoded properly.
IDD is communication.

Distance Learning, WWW, and Communication Theory: level of responsiveness is communication rate. Distance is no longer focal, responsiveness is.