Analogies for Educational Design: Factories

Analogies for Educational Design: Factories

Since education is a design-oriented field, it can be enlightening to make comparisons between educational design work and design in other fields. For example, it is fairly common for people who are displeased with formal education to compare the experience to life in a factory.

Watch the clip above about the development of assembly line methods in Britain and America.

As you watch, note similarities and differences you see between factory work and formal education.

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This page is a demonstration piece on web authoring with BlueGriffon for EDUC 890, a graduate course in the Educational Technology and Learning Design Program at Simon Fraser University.