The purpose of this article is to explore the need for imagination and creativity in adult education instructional design both online and face-to-face. It defines both imagination and creativity as well as provides an overview of the history of instructional design. It provides an examination of imagination and its application in educational settings. Suggestions are presented for promoting cre...

Learning exercises that activate students’ additional cognitive understanding of course concepts facilitate contextualizing the content knowledge and developing higher-order thinking problem-solving skills. Student-generated instructional materials such as summaries problem sets are amongst strategies reflect active learning constructivist philosophy. The contributions this work twofold: 1) We ...

Objectives: The purpose of this paper is to comprehensively describe and justify the case design an approach for integration synchronous virtual meetings support nontraditional online doctoral candidates. As more students are completing their degree programs virtually through universities, nature progression development critical knowledge skills differ from traditional on-campus programs. Metho...

Despite rapid progress, most of the educational technologies today lack a strong instructional design knowledge basis leading to questionable quality of instruction. In addition, a major challenge is to customize these educational technologies for a wide range of instructional designs. Ontologies are one of the pertinent mechanisms to represent instructional design in the literature. However, e...

Learner-centered instructional design places students’ learning needs in the center of the instructional design process. In the learner-centered instructional design model for distance learning, learners’ motivational and affective needs are emphasized; steps of creating a learner-centered environment that supports learning strategies are described. This model provides a practical framework to ...

The NASA Classroom of the Future sponsored a residential training course to help teachers learn to use computer-based educational tools and explore constructivist instructional approaches. Researchers hypothesized that creating a living-and-learning environment for the training would foster rapid changes in teachers’ epistemological beliefs. Pretest-posttest differences on an epistemology inven...

Despite decades of research, muscle-based control assistive devices (myocontrol) is still unreliable; for instance upper-limb prostheses, each year more and dexterous human-like, provide hardly enough functionality to justify their cost the effort required use them. In order try close this gap, we propose shift goal myocontrol from guessing intended movements creating new circular reactions in ...

Background: Considering the assumptions of cognitive load theory and using its reduction and optimization strategies in the design and development of instructional content is one of the main requirements for achieving effective learning. This study examined the effectiveness of instructional multimedia based on reducing the extraneous cognitive load in English language learning among Nursing st...