Reflections on our group's project and colleagues presentations
For a group project in our Instructional Technologies course at NDSU, Macey Kleinjan and Nouf Alhomoud , ( Feel free to use the hyperlink to check out their blogs ) and I chose to utilize the ASSURE model to design a lesson plan which we could use to teach our classmates about what we learned about the experiential, problem-based, and inquiry-based learning theories. As we began to work with the ASSURE model, I found the lesson plan template that I had previously obtained from Arizona State University's Professional Learning Library to be very user friendly. I personally really appreciated how the first aspect of the ASSURE model is analyzing the learners so that the instruction will be tailored to their specific needs. As we analyzed the class, we realized that as active instructors many of our classmates would likely already be familiar with one if not all three of the learning theories. We therefore transitioned our focus on what we thought would be the most useful for our