Instructional Design Theories
Instructional design refers to the systematic and reflective process of translating principles of learning and instruction into plans for instructional materials, activities, information resources, and evaluation. (Smith and Ragan, 1999) In the 1950s Bloom helped developed a taxonomy of cognitive objectives in “Taxonomy of Educational Objectives,Cognitive Domain” Means of expressing qualitatively different kinds of thinking Been adapted for classroom use as a planning tool and continues to be one of the most universally applied models Provides a way to organise thinking skills into six levels, from the most basic to the more complex levels of thinking 1. The ADDIE model is used by instructional designers and training developers. It is composed of five phases Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation Which represent a dynamic, flexible guideline for building effective training and performance support tools. This model attempts to save t...