Teach Better

A brief 20 minute presentation on instructional design at the Pluralsight Author Summit 2015.

Transcript

1. Teach Better
2. Teach Better Geoffrey Grosenbach VP of Open Source Developer Content
3. How to Apply Styling Cream ⏱ ✋ ☻
4. • Key Concepts • Memorable • Action/Verification • From Experience Why Does This Work?
5. Beginning Middle End
6. Beginning
7. ⏰ The first 60 seconds
10. http://hello.processing.org/editor
12. ⚑ ⌖
13. Explanatory Patterns • Problem • Solution • Before • After
14. Middle
15. Kinds of Documentation • API • Terminology • Step by Step • Concepts • Tips
16. Explain concepts in the context of a hands on demo. ! Avoid an hour of lecture, hour of lab.
17. • Restaurant orders by table • Music player • Task list with duration or tags • Project management app • Calendar What Makes a Good Demo Project? ⏱ • Data • Application • Apple pie recipe • Cupcake factory inventory • List of cities for a trip • Catalog of books or movies • Pluralsight API
18. Datatypes • Events • Input • Progression of Concepts Too Complex • Hacks • Impractical • Fragile
19. Explanatory Patterns • Problem/Solution • Action/Result • Before/After • Bad/Good • Good/Better/Best • Compare/Contrast • Analogy • Timeline
20. “A good exam covers a range of concepts from easy to moderate to difficult. ! An exam that covers a range of concepts will naturally include concepts that span a range of difficulties.”
21. The 9 Principles of Immediately Effective Instruction • Most critical items • Repeat • Single stream • Experience the problem • Overarching narrative • Eliminate • Impact, sparingly • Small collections • Short cycles https://authors.pluralsight.com/course-design-guidelines/
22. End
23. “I spent weeks trying to understand Ember.js but it all clicked when I watched your course.”