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...

We present the concept of instructional program coherence and explain why school improvement frameworks that incorporate instructional program coherence are more likely to advance student achievement than multiple, unrelated efforts. We present evidence that Chicago elementary schools with stronger instructional program coherence make higher gains in student achievement. We also share observati...

This is the second of a two-part article that discusses the history of the field of instructional design and technology in the United States. The first part, which focused on the history of instructional media, appeared in the previous issue of this journal (volume 49, number 1). This part of the article focuses on the history of instructional design. Starting with a description of the efforts ...

The present study was conducted to assess the teachers’ self efficacy on three subscales namely as Student Engagement, Instructional Strategies and Classroom Management. The main objective of the study was to determine the teachers’ self efficacy on these subscales in relation to gender, age, professional qualification, school status and nature of job. For this purpose a convenient sample of 10...

After several decades of learning research 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 that are widely...

Access management for learning communities requires a unified theory, sustaining the implementation of instructional policies, for ‘social networks’. The management method we have reached is based on the integration of content-rich resources in ‘operations’ that model/control the access of those seeking to learn something by using them, with or without assistance. Activities may be sequenced em...

A common problem faced by those who teach Operations Management and Industrial Engineering courses is motivating students to learn and apply the quantitative and managerial aspects of the material. The aim of our educational methodology is to not only teach and reinforce the core principles of the disciplines, but to have students develop a set of skills that will make them competitive in the c...

This essay aims to bring politics closer to home in two main ways. First, we address geographical and disciplinary spaces and identities in order to propose a fruitful ‘breeding ground’ for critical management education (CME) in the US context: organizational and instructional communication studies. Second, we engage recent calls for selfrefl exivity among CME scholars, re-directing the critica...