Instructional Design Tips

Instructional Design Tips

Proactive Measurement, Cognitivism, AI, Context, and Fear

Premium Member's Edition #004

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Tom McDowall
Feb 28, 2026
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Hello reader, and welcome to the fourth premium members edition.

Let me kick things off by welcoming a fairly large number of new paid subscribers here on Substack. Thank you for joining us and I hope that you enjoy and gain some additional value from this Fortnitely exclusive.

Thank you to everyone who’s contacted me with ideas, topics, and questions they’d like covered in these fortnightly editions. Please do continue to drop me your thoughts and opinions, especially your questions for the members’ Q&A, as I’m having great fun researching and working through the questions you’ve sent me so far.

With all that aside let’s take a quick look at what’s included in this fortnight’s edition.


In this edition

  1. The Measurement Question

  2. Quick Definitions: Cognitivism

  3. Member Q&A: Am I Being Left Behind on AI?

  4. Context Is the Curriculum

  5. What Is AI Telling Us About Ourselves?

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