A Research Method on Instructional Technology for Developing Knowledge Creation Course : A Case of the Instructional Development for Enhancing Problem Solving Competence in Teacher Training

Abstract

Instructional technology can be scrutinized from the viewpoint of instruction as well as technology. Technological view suggests that developmental procedure of a new course can start from images and analogies instead of instructional objectives adopted in the conventional procedure of instructional technology. The conventional instructions in universities are usually given in the form of lecture and practice, but this report introduces a new style of knowledge creation course to solve educational problems creatively. It also shows the possibility of describing empirical and tacit knowledge accumulated from long teaching experiences into the explicit knowledge in the form of models and empirical laws or propositions.