Decision making is an important feature of design. Although engineering design refers to the design of products and technical systems, design activities occur in many other professions, including education. As education moves from teaching to learning, engineering faculty are becoming course designers who make many decisions when designing a course. Although many course design processes have be...

Model-driven simulation can make the design and delivery of instruction more efficient and effective. We describe two computational models that support both the design and delivery of instruction. BEST (the Benchmarked Experiential System for Training) can guide experts through the space of domain problems during the knowledge engineering phase of instructional design; it can guide trainees thr...

Employing my research and practical experience in the field of educational psychology, with a specialty in instructional design and technology, I would like to reflect on the theoretical foundations of instructional design. My purpose is to show the growth of the field through theories associated with learning psychology and educational technology. Both human psychology and technology are the m...

There is nowadays a lot of interest in the field of Instructional Design. The focus is still on theories and methodology of Instructional System Design (ISD), which are the fundamentals of the field and are absolutely important for its application. However, most professionals are involved in the daily practice of instructional design (ID). The practice of instructional design has a slightly dif...

Recent trends reveal that models of culture aid in mapping the design and analysis of information and communication technologies. Therefore, models of culture are powerful tools to guide the building of instructional products and services. This research examines the construction of the culture based model (CBM), a model of culture that evolved from historical and linguistic analyses of instruct...

The purpose of this research was to study what university faculty valued when working with instructional designers and design teams develop educational simulations. We did through a case three faculty, where we analyzed they discussed among themselves or communicated other team members about mattered them their relationships the processes employed. structured our report around thematic issues t...