How do educators and instructional designers assess the effectiveness of the learning environments they design? One important means of ensuring the effectiveness of instruction in distance and face-to-face settings is through provision of learner support. Increasingly, as learners utilize the World Wide Web for collaborative learning, support systems contribute to the processes of learning and ...

This paper first summarizes, and then compares and contrasts two well-known instructional design models: Dick and Carey Model (DC) and Morrison, Ross and Kemp model (MRK). The target audiences of both models are basically instructional designers. Both models have applications for different instructional design settings. They both see the instructional design as a means to problem-solving. Howev...

1 Information Technology Program, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102 [email protected] 2 College of Computing Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07012 [email protected] Acknowledgment: This work was supported in part by the New Jersey Information-Technology Opportunities for the Workforce, Education and Research (NJ I-TOWER) Project funded by the New ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Many Canadian hospital pharmacies are experiencing difficulties recruiting supervisory personnel. It was expected that, through a "learning-by-doing" course, pharmacy staff would learn to apply basic skills in the day-to-day supervision of pharmacy operations and human resources and to apply the principles of supervisory documentation. METHODS A supervisory skills cou...

The Multi-channel learning environment is nebulous and incidental configuration where channels reinforce as well as contradict each other. The Multi-channel learning system is a deliberate, planned configuration to create the sync and synergize the power of various media to achieve optimal learning. This articles examines instructional design for the classroom, for self instructional materials,...

Constructivist learning theories argue that tasks and discourse modes that explicitly incorporate students’ former experiences can form powerful learning environments. Furthermore, research shows that students develop intrinsic motivation such as domain-specific interest, when they feel challenged and personally involved. Accordingly, constructivist teaching settings in which students participa...

Courseware has to reflect the learning situation coined by contents, learning goals, characteristics of the learner, technical conditions etc. The efficient creation of appropriately designed courseware relies on flexible representations of reusable instructional material and learning circumstances. Contradictory approaches of different instructional design schools give little advice in case of...

Database design is as much an art as it is a science. In order for students to become skilled enough to produce an effective design, they will need to achieve the synthesis level of Bloom's taxonomy. Given the effort involved in reaching that level, a constructivist approach must be used to teach the course. However, even using a project based approach may not be sufficient. Based on learning s...