The general interest in the World Wide Web (WWW) as a medium for sharing and distributing textual and graphic information has brought about an increasing number of instruction-oriented web sites and web-based instructional pages. These range from offering supplemental (or even duplicate) instructional materials to students on campus to providing opportunities for off-campus individuals to compl...

Serious games have proven to be a useful instrument to engage learners and increase motivation. Nevertheless, a broadly accepted, practical instructional design approach to serious games does not exist. In this paper, we introduce the use of an instructional design model that has not been applied to serious games yet, and has some advantages compared to other design approaches. We present the c...

For the past several years the author has been reviewing instructional design theories in an attempt to identify prescriptive principles that are common to the various theories. This paper is a preliminary report of the principles that have been identified by this search. Five first principles are elaborated: (a) Learning is promoted when learners are engaged in solving real-world problems. (b)...

During the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Conference 2014, a workshop was held three consecutive times as part of the Pedagogical Speed Dating sessions to introduce experienced college/university faculty and instructional designers to an approach to instructional design that is based on increasing motivation. The purpose of the workshop was to demonstrate the use of Kelle...

This report is an overview of computer-based training (CBT) hardware, software, and instructional design. It will assist aviation maintenance training and FAA inspection personnel in making informed decisions about CBT. A central part of this report is the description of a process for analyzing the instructional requirements for a specific task and then selecting a CBT program or designing and ...

adjustments to the instructional milieu to support and enhance learning. The goal of Automated adaptation with user input (1, 2, 3, 4, learner variables (cognitive and noncognitive) and modeling approaches (quantitative and qualitative). 2 Instructional media history, 3 Cognitive load theory, 4 Robert Gagné began to adopt an information-processing-based approach to the design of instruction. PL...

The professional field of instructional design has been greatly impacted by the increase in “on-demand” information required to support the performance of a worker or team. To address this emerging reality and the resulting need to provide cost-effective training, many organizations are committed to converting a significant amount of current instructional material to electronic media and, incre...

This paper is about some major trends that are occurring with respect to the development of task analysis methodology. One clear trend is that better methodologies are being developed to analyze cognitive tasks (e.g., Greeno, 1976; Gregg, 1976: Resnick, 1976; Landa, 1983; Scandura, 1983). Among the most promising developments here are methodologies for analyzing ways in which knowledge should b...