Commentary 31 Warns against excessive reliance on computers to adapt instruction. Commentary on Intentional Learning in an Intentional World Thomas L. Russell Director Emeritus, Instructional Telecommunications North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695 tjrussell@mindspring.com This article, subtitled Audience Analysis and Instructional System Design for Successful Learning and Performance, by Margaret Martinez is a must-read for all committed to seeing to it that technologies keep their promises and achieve their potential. There is a propensity among technology proponents to disregard, or at least to minimize the importance of, individual differences among learners and the impact of differences in learning. While the research design, execution, and ndings are significant it is important to recognize this work for what it is a meaningful addition to a less-than-adequate body of knowledge. In our (still) instruction-centered educational environment it is still frustratingly dif cult to elicit recognition that we are all different in many ways and that includes how we learn. Ms. Martinez has provided us with a contemporary update on individual difference data which ows well from her excellent historical review (Appendix A.). I feel this work, if replicated, properly applied, and built upon can in uence instructional designers, in
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Commentary on international learning
Russell, Thomas L.
Follow ACM Journal of Computer Documentation (JCD)
, Volume 24 (1)
Association for Computing Machinery – Feb 1, 2000
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