This valuable resource provides instructional designers with the guidance they need to meet the challenge of creating effective and efficient instruction, Designing Effective Instruction:

• Maintains an appropriate balance between theory and applications.
• Presents an eclectic and highly flexible model that can be adapted for use in a variety of settings and situations.
• Gives chapter-opening Getting Started scenarios and questions focus the reader's attention on key points.
• Provides numerous examples based on the authors' experiences in business, higher education, and K-12 education
• Emphasizes the practical application of the instructional design process.
• Contains a sample plan at the end of each primary design chapter.
• Supplies Expert's Edge sections that present real-world insights from practicing instructional designers.

This practical approach to the instructional design process features applications to a variety of settings and situations. The models presents are applicable to both business training and for use in K-12 classrooms and in higher education. The authors incorporate both behavioral and cognitive approaches.

Provides a practical approach to the instructional design process with applications to a variety of settings and situations. The authors have incorporated both behavioral and cognitive approaches into the model to appeal to diverse audiences. Any single project could include only one approach or a combination of the two approaches. Featuring a strong emphasis on designing instruction in a business setting, the authors also present an approach that is applicable to those in K-12 classrooms and in higher education.

Preface.

Chapter 1. Introduction to the Instructional Design Process.

Chapter 2. Identifying the Need for Instruction.

Chapter 3. Learner and Contextual Analysis.

Chapter 4. Task Analysis.

Chapter 5. Instructional Objectives.

Chapter 6. Designing the Instructions: Sequencing.

Chapter 7. Designing the Instruction: Strategies.

Chapter 8. Designing the Instructional Message.

Chapter 9. Developing Instructional Materials.

Chapter 10. The Many Faces of Evaluation.

Chapter 11. Developing Evaluation Instruments.

Chapter 12. Using Evaluation to Enhance Programs: Conducting Formative and Summative Evaluations.

Chapter 13. The Role of the Instructional Designer.

Chapter 14. Planning and Project Management.

Chapter 15. Planning for Instructional Implementation.

Appendix. Problem Identification.

Glossary.