Instructional Design Course

• Cognitive Load Theory
  • Readings
  • Tools for Richer Learning
  • Activities
  • Self Check
• A Four Step Process
• Sizing Up the Learner
• Stating the Outcome
• Making it Happen
• Knowing What the Learner Knows
• Case Studies
• Home

Tools for Richer Learning

Objectivist vs. Constructivist

This link takes you to a Web developer's perspective. He is basically saying that before you create a Web based instructional unit, you consider theory. He divides theory into two camps:Behaviorist and Constructivist. While the Behaviorists follow more of a Dick and Carey model (which he describes), Constructivists follow more of a Cognitive Flexibility model.

A look at all the Models

This article shares a growing concern with Instructional Design models and people's attitudes towards them. I like it because it discusses various instructional design models and how they represent a somewhat fuzzy domain of expertise.

Where does the four-step Model fit?

You will learn more about the four-step process/model we follow in Unit 2. The four-steps are a simplified ADDIE model

• Analysis (Step 1 mostly)
  
• Design (Step 2 & Step 3)
  
• Development (Step 3)
  
• Implementation (Step 3 and Step 4)
  
• Evaluation (Step 4)