Recent technological advances now make possible the full integration of sound in instructional software. Sounds may gain and focus learner attention, reduce distracting stimuli, and make learning more engaging. In addition, they may help learners condense, elaborate on, and organize details, highlighting interconnections among new pieces of information and making connections to preexisting know...

After several years of research in learning, education and the reactions of cognitive psychology to this research, educational psychologists and training designers developed prescriptive model for the systematic design of instruction (Derry and lesgold, 1994). This model, called Instructional Design (ID) or Instructional System Design (ISD), consists of knowledge, terminology and procedures tha...

This paper discusses the computerization of an existent tool called GRASP. It helps teachers to design an instructional system. Currently, GRASP has the form of a grid. Teachers complete it to first clarify their instructional problem and then to design an instructional system. This tool covers the analysis and design phases of the ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate) model....

Background: Motivation is an important factor in learning. Educational games increase the learning motivation and understanding of students by creating a sense of joy, satisfaction and involvement. However, it is necessary to incorporate learning elements into the games, differently. In this study, the researcher tried to provide a model for designing educational games and determining its relat...

Simulation is a unique learning environment, as it allows participants to experience critical care interventions in a ‘safe’ environment. A good understanding of educational theory and instructional design is required to ensure meaningful learning is experienced. Simulation allows a variety of learning theories to be applied due to the wide variety and complexity of the clinical situations pres...

This dissertation explores the ways that three urban middle school teachers use curriculum materials to enact a 10-week classroom science project. Unlike typical studies of implementation, this work devotes particular attention to the nature of the curriculum designs and the ways that teachers use these resources to design everyday instructional settings. I introduce a scale for characterizing ...

Many Australian tertiary institutions provide support for academic staff in the design and development of online teaching and learning resources, often employing a centralised unit staffed with educational and instructional designers, multimedia and online developers, audio/video producers and graphic artists. It is not unusual for these units to have evolved from print-based distance education...

Thisarticle describes critical design ethnography, an ethnographic process in­ volvingparticipatory design workaimed at transforming a local contextwhile producing an instructional design that can beused in multiplecontexts. Here, we reflect on the opportunities and challenges that emerged as we built local critiques thenreified them intoadesignedartifact thathasbeen implemented in classrooms a...

Instructional designers are expected to be familiar with the epistemological underpinnings of several theories and their consequences on the process of instruction. Constructivism is the dominant theory of the last decade and supports construction of knowledge by the individual. This paper discusses the basic principles underlying constructivism, particularly active, collaborative and authentic...

1 Ian Douglas, Florida State University, Learning Systems Institute, Suite 109, Morgan Building, Innovation Park, Tallahassee, Fl 32306, [email protected] Abstract  There is currently a lot of interest in the concept of learning objects. Learning objects are discrete units of learning resources based on agreed standards. The idea behind learning objects is to promote greater reuse of resour...