LEARNING MODULE

According to Darrel L. Murray, “A module is a self-contained and independent unit of instructing with a primary focus a few-defined objectives.” Module is been an important tool to the teacher for them to achieve their goals and objective in just a minimum period of time.

Module as an instructional materials has a corresponding criteria and these are:

• ·         it should be self-contained,
• ·         it should be self-pacing,
• ·         its topic or subject matter should be short enough and well-defined,
• ·         it should be adequately motivating,
• ·         it should provide opportunities for interaction with learner,
• ·         its objectives and activities should be properly sequenced,
• ·         it should be written in clear, correct language suitable to the level of the target learner,
• ·         it should be so written as to make it interesting and appealing to the learner,
• ·         it should be accurate,
• ·         it should not have wrong implication for conflict with other subject matter or values,
• ·         it should utilize every opportunity to achieve outcomes of learning,
• ·         it should contained all necessary components of a module,
• ·         the components of the module should be highly supportive of one another. 

All of the stated above is very much important for it serves as a guidelines, especially for us as a the teacher-learner so that all of the topic that we discussed would be more fruitful.