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...

As a result of the computerization of school education, teachers are faced with the design of new instruction problems which are different from usual instruction in the various points. The purpose of this study is to develop a system which can support teachers in the instructional design process flexibly and dynamically for their various requests. Main characteristics of this system are: 1) mak...

Although General Didactics (GD) and Instructional Design (ID) have not shown many points of contact in the past, there are some obvious parellels from the perspective of their historical development. This will be examined in detail in this article. More specifically, we speak about model building, which has characterized General Didactics and Instructional Design for some decades. However, the ...

This paper presents a cognitively guided set of design guidelines for instructional animations based on a review of the existing literature. The guidelines are based around a cognitive load theory framework, which assumes learners’ limited working memories must be considered for instructional animations to be effective. We propose six design guidelines: (1) animations are more beneficial for le...

The book is loosely structured around the ADDIE (Analyse, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate) instructional design process. Relevant articles that include business world case studies, learning theories, systems theory, and management theories and practices in a variety of commercial environments illustrate the steps within the process. The book concludes with a section entitled New Methodo...