4C/ID learning environment designer
I'm here to help you design your training program using 4C/ID
What complex skill, or a real-world task, do you want to teach your students?
Complex learning involves integrating knowledge, skills, and attitudes, coordinating qualitatively different constituent skills, and often transferring what is learned in school or training settings to daily life and work (van Merriënboer, Kirschner, & Frèrejean, 2024)
Examples of complex skills in a school context include writing a critical essay on a social issue, designing and conducting a scientific experiment, solving a real-life mathematical problem, investigating a historical question using multiple sources, creating a multimedia presentation to teach others about a topic, and planning and executing an art project
What complex skill would you like to design training for? I'll help you determine if it's truly a complex skill and explain why
Great! The complex skill has been selected. This means all learning tasks will now reflect that skill. The learning tasks are authentic, whole-task experiences based on real-life situations that integrate knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
Let's define what we mean by this skill through cognitive task analysis
Now, let me help you break down this complex skill into its constituent parts. I'll create a hierarchical structure showing both recurrent (R) and nonrecurrent (NR) skills.
Recurrent skills are applied across many tasks and practiced repeatedly until they become automated, while non-recurrent skills are task-specific, require reasoning, and are learned through varied, contextual problem-solving.
Please share the complex skill again, and I'll break it down into its constituent skills.
If you paste a constituent skill here, I will help you generate a scoring rubric for it
Nice! A well-designed training program will not teach and train each of the required constituent skills separately but in an integrated fashion by having the learners start by making simple tasks, followed by increasingly complex ones.
Designing learning tasks
These need to be organized into simple-to-complex task classes. Could you please share the complex skill again so that I can propose the task classes?
Learning tasks should vary in practice, and support should gradually decrease to help learners become more independent. Please provide an explanation of Task Class 1 so that I can suggest learning tasks with varied practice for it
Please share an explanation of Task Class 2 so that I can suggest learning tasks with varied practice for it
Please share an explanation of Task Class 3 so that I can suggest learning tasks with varied practice for it
Great! Given all these suggestions, you can now select the learning tasks you like, modify them, and sequence them.
Designing supportive information
Share the description of Task Class 1 and its associated learning tasks, and I'll suggest supportive information for them