Walt Disney, intrigued with clockwork figures he had observed from Europe, had future Imagineers create a dancing mechanical man based on film the studio had of famous performer and dancer, Buddy Ebsen (who later played Jed Clampett on the TV Sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies). The clockwork miniature “dancing man” was the beginning of Walt Disney’s […]
Is the field of instructional design a design field? Would the study of instructional design (variously called “learning science,” “instructional systems design,” “instructional technology,” “educational technology” and so forth) benefit from being studied and practiced in ways more like other fields of design, such as architecture, product (industrial) design, and graphic design?
Walt Disney’s “Four Cs”—A Curious Omission
“This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy…” ~Walt Disney (emphasis added)