Comments on: LTGR Ep. #70 – “Iterative Design” http://www.ltgreenroom.org/episodes/84 The LT Green Room is a podcast for Renewal, Retooling and Conversations about Learning. It is co-hosted by Susan Manning and Dan Balzer and its show topics are often drawn from members of LearningTimes.org, a free online community of education and training professionals from across the globe. The LT Green Room gives listeners (and ourselves) an opportunity to reflect on what they're doing behind the scene that results in an effective learning experience. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:06:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Alan Selig http://www.ltgreenroom.org/episodes/84#comment-131671 Alan Selig Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:49:45 +0000 http://www.ltgreenroom.org/episodes/84#comment-131671 I appreciatd your comment about just getting the first iteration out there, and then improving in the subsequent editions. That reduced some of my guilt over the initial version of a course I taught a few years ago, and a sense of "disloyalty?" to those first students if I substantially changed/improved the course the next time. It was also confirmation that is was OK to use a text that I fell in love with as I was initially planning the course. Especially with an initial course I sometimes feel as though I am plowing ground, breaking up surfaces that are hardened and resistant to new ideas. In this kind of course the "content" is less important than the questioning and exposure to alternatives. My goal is not so much to create content experts as help learners see how larger the field is than the row they already know. Maybe that is where the term "survey course" came from. I appreciatd your comment about just getting the first iteration out there, and then improving in the subsequent editions. That reduced some of my guilt over the initial version of a course I taught a few years ago, and a sense of “disloyalty?” to those first students if I substantially changed/improved the course the next time.

It was also confirmation that is was OK to use a text that I fell in love with as I was initially planning the course.

Especially with an initial course I sometimes feel as though I am plowing ground, breaking up surfaces that are hardened and resistant to new ideas. In this kind of course the “content” is less important than the questioning and exposure to alternatives. My goal is not so much to create content experts as help learners see how larger the field is than the row they already know. Maybe that is where the term “survey course” came from.

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