Directed Learning Lessons (DLLs) exists in three venues of face-to-face, eye-to-eye contact as well as by software. Variations exist when teachers divide a class into small groups to complete an assignment.
1. The Harkness method of teaching appears as a classroom with a limited number of students and teacher sitting at a table discussing the topic (called a lesson in other forms of education) of the day. Students prepared for the discussion by at least reading assignments and considering ways to debate issues and problems with facts and citations of sources.
2. DDL teaching software relies on intense planning and content task analysis of software developers. They identify an optimal use of a 2-Choice Correct-Incorrect Response Frame.
3. Typical presentations in college texts and professional research journal articles use a DDL format. They emphasizes the fit between learning, content, and (sometimes computer based) instruction.
These three methods emphasizes the fit between learning, content, and computer based instruction. They can occur separately and exclusively or in a planned mixture intended to meet a specific content outcome. All three are also open to use of tablets, smartphones, videos, Internet sources, and other advancing communication technologies to accomplish academic performance results planned by teachers.