Chunking in relation to organizing knowledge refers to a method of making more efficient use of short-term memory. The “Chunking” resembles grouping, or categorizing of information. Its purpose is to break up larger amounts of information into smaller units, or chunks. The idea is to have these chunks of information introduced to the learners “…based on [the learners] prior knowledge and then use these chunks to build larger, more interconnected knowledge structures” (Ambrose, et al., 2010, p. 51). Students will learn more effectively when they are “…provided with a structure for organizing new information” (Ambrose, et al., 2010, p. 53). The structure referred to is to provide students with a grouping, categorization or other organization strategy to connect the different pieces, or chunks of prior knowledge and current learning objectives. The implications of this research indicate that we, as experts in our fields cannot expect that learners have efficiently and successf...
What is the difference between Curriculum Design and Instructional Design ? Through my adult education journey, this question has often been a confusion point for myself. I wasn't sure if the two terms were really synonymous or not. So I dug in and here's what I have learned: The International Bureau of Education ( IBE ), a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) created the revised IBE Glossary of Curriculum Terminology where it defines Curriculum Design in its 2013 edition as: The process of meaningfully constructing and interconnecting the components of curriculum so as to address such fundamental questions as what needs to be learned and how and why, the resources required and how learning will be assessed. (IBE UNESCO, 2013, p. 17) Now let's look at the definition of Instructional Design. In Ellen Wagner's (2011) essay titled "In Search of the Secret Handshakes of ID", as published in the Journal of Appl...