Instructional Design

Debra T. Drayton

As a Process

Instructional Design is the systematic development of instructional specifications

Enhances InstructionsEnhances Instructions

Enables LearnersEnables Learners

As a Discipline

Instructional Design is that branch of knowledge concerned with research and theory about instructional strategies and the process

for developing and implementing those strategies.

Strategies

Organization

Delivery

Management

Instructional Design Models

PrescriptiveBehavorists

PhenonemologicalCognitivists

Famous Behavior PsychologistB. F. Skinner

Famous for his work with rats using his “Skinner Box”

                         

Famous Cognitive Psychologists

Alan Baddeley Frederick Bartlett

Donald Broadbent Jerome Bruner

Hermann Ebbinghaus George Miller

Categorization

Distinct entities are Distinct entities are treated equaltreated equal

Categorization

Categorical PerceptionBreaking a whole into parts

Representation

Done mentally through modeling

Major Research Areas

C og n itive P sych o log y

P ercep tion

L an g u ag e Th in k in g

M em ory K n ow led g e R ep resen ta tion

The Information Processing Model

References

Cognitive Psychology Part III. September 21, 2000. Available at http://www.hku.hk/philodep/courses/icogsc0001/CogSci.Psy-2.ppt

Definitions of Instructional Design Adapted from "Training and Instructional Design",Applied Research Library, Penn State Universityhttp://www.umich.edu/~ed626/define.html

Ryder, Martin. University of Colorado At Denver School of Education Instructional Design Model. Available at http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc/idmodels.html February 1, 2004

Instructional Technologies.1997. Saint Cloud State University. Available at http://lrs.stcloudstate.edu/cim/courses/pine/strategy.html