Instructional Planning Panel

Questions for discussion:

1. Is there a need of instructional planning?

• yes - the system has to decide how to guide the student
• no - the student has to decide how to learn

2. What is instructional planning?

• sequencing of contents?
• sequencing of presentation?
• the teaching strategies of the system?
• what exactly is controlled in the learning process in an instructional learning environment?
• can the process of deciding only about the next step still be called planning?

3. What kind of planning (if any) is needed in constructivist environments?

• no planning at all
• changing invisibly parameters of the environment
• explicit guidance and help, planned by the system

4. What kind of goals guide the planning?

• what is the result or output of planning?
• what is the input for planning?
• what kind of planning can be driven by constructivist goals?
• what kind of knowledge about the learner should be used for planning in a constructivist environment?

5. What techniques may be appropriate?

• AI planning techniques
• teaching rules
• tracing the knowledge structure
• reasoning about goals and decision making
• other techniques???

How to participate?

Those, who are interested to participate, please, send an e-mail to the organizer in which they state their viewpoint on Instructional Planning by answering to the four questions listed above and /or propose new questions.

Please, try if possible, to give a short justification for your answers (either from your own work and experience or references to literature).

Organization of the Panel:

From all people who answer, five will be selected who have strongest or most arguable positions. They will be invited to present their viewpoints at the panel. All other participants will be divided into "teams" supporting one or another viewpoint on each question. We hope that this will stimulate an active discussion.

Please, send your viewpoints to the panel organizer,