One of the enduring metaphors used to describe education is that it’s a recipe for instilling knowledge. I use it in this post:
Design and Development
The problem with designing and developing distance courses is embodied in Equivalency Theory. According to Equivalency you need to account for everything in the classroom and make sure there’s some equivalent function in the distance course.
The problem is that, unlike a recipe where you *expect* that if you follow the recipe you’ll get consistent results, with instruction you have no such guarantee. If you’re a connosieur of bread baking, you know how variations as disparate as humidity, flour quality, and altitude can change your outcomes. Some of them you can compensate for, if you’re aware of them. Others? It’s just dumb luck.
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