The site called Big Dog & Little Dog’s Performance
Juxtaposition provides details about performance, learning, leadership, and
knowledge. The site has been around for over 15 years. The site creator is Don
Clark. As an instructional designer, you will find many useful explanations and
charts on this site to help you make wise instructional design decisions. The
site is copyright protected under the Creative Commons. You may use his
materials with attribution and non-commercial stipulations. If you decide to
use his materials, you must contact him through email and describe the use, and
you must properly credit him on your site or material. Direct commercial use of
his materials is not allowed.
He has packed his site with so much information it is difficult to
mention everything. There are 13 tabs across the top of the home page
representing specific areas of interest. The Training tab has been especially
useful to me because it provides information and links about instructional
design. On this tab, Don lists several instructional design manuals. If you are
looking for material on the System’s Approach to training, it is the first
link. He presents several other links to instructional design manuals including
Agile Design. All of these are linked within his own site, so they are his
materials. If you scroll down a bit, you will see a section called Eclectic
Collection. In this section, try the first link. There is an excellent chart
explaining various design methodologies.
Additionally, I like the Learning tab. If you are going to be a
good instructional designer, you need to know how people learn. I like how he
has provided concept maps, graphs, and charts to explain some of the more
difficult concepts and theories. These are linked to other areas of
information, for instance, to explain informal/formal learning, social learning
and media, and blended learning. I highly recommend this site to anyone who
wants to know more about instructional systems design.
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