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Record W4416270790 · doi:10.1177/11356405251385341

Activity-Based Instructional Design for online teaching / <i>Diseño Instruccional Basado en Actividades para la enseñanza en línea</i>

2025· article· en· W4416270790 on OpenAlexaff
John Cripps Clark, Michael Hoover

Bibliographic record

VenueCulture and Education · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicOnline and Blended Learning
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInstructional designOnline courseSet (abstract data type)Online learningCourse (navigation)SoftwareVirtual learning environmentDistance educationLearning design

Abstract

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The goal of this paper is to describe the Activity-Based Instructional Design (ABID) model for the online course designer, who may not have expertise in learning theory. ABID provides the course designer and instructor in tertiary education with a naturally modular, student-centred and theory-informed template which reconceptualizes the online course as a series of interconnected and interrelated activities that provides the learner with the set of psychological tools needed to achieve the learning objectives of the course. In this Vygotskian framework, two crucial ideas emerge: the learning activity and not the software that is the unit of analysis; and the learning outcome of each activity provides the psychological tools used by a learner in subsequent activities. We employ Engeström’s cultural-historical activity theory as a framework for the design of the online course. To illustrate this design process, we apply the ABID model to the design of an online introductory statistics course. Because ABID is based on a well-developed learning theory, it enables us to make clear proscriptions to achieve better student learning.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.973
Threshold uncertainty score0.545

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.364
Teacher spread0.341 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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