ABSTRACT
Instructional strategies are the very heart of an instructional design and serve to “foster student learning including pre-instructional activities, presentation of content, learner participation, assessment, and follow-through activities” (Dick, Carey, & Carey, 2005, p. 7). As you select strategies, be sure to consider both teaching strategies and learning strategies. Teaching strategies are the techniques used by an instructor or the instruction to bring about a specific learning outcome, and learning strategies are “those steps taken by the learner to … make learning more efficient and effective” (Lockee, 1996, p. 5). Both types of strategies are important to an effective design. The terminology used for Connectivist and some Constructivist designs is slightly different. These approaches emphasize planning learning activities and building learning environments to encourage specific learning outcomes, foster the use of higher-order thinking skills, and
prompt interaction with content and between groups and individuals. To reflect these different approaches, we’ll use the terms “strategies” and “activities” interchangeably.
