Designing Effective Instruction

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 464 pages
• Published by: Wiley
• Edition: 5th Edition October 27, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0470074264
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0470074268
• Book Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.6 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 1.7 pounds

Product Description
This valuable resource provides instructional designers with the guidance they need to meet the challenge of creating effective and efficient instruction. Maintaining a careful balance between theory and application, the Fourth Edition presents a practical, easy-to-follow approach to instructional design that can be applied to K-12 classrooms, higher education, distance education, and business programs. The authors incorporate behavioral and cognitive approaches into their model, so that readers can reap the benefits of both.

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A highly effective model for instructional design that works in any setting

Whether you are designing instructional programs for the business environment, an elementary school, or higher education, you’ll find the proven instructional design strategies you need in this Fifth Edition of DESIGNING EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTION.

Updated and revised, the Fifth Edition equips you with practical skills for successful instructional design. The authors balance theory and application, and borrow from many different disciplines and approaches, including both behavioral and cognitive approaches. The result is an easy-to-follow, highly effective model, flexible enough to accommodate many different requirements and objectives.

Features:

• Maintains an appropriate balance between theory and application with a clear, easy-to-follow presentation.
• Presents an eclectic and highly flexible model that can be adapted for use in a variety of settings and situations.
• Incorporates Expert Edge contributions from leading practitioners and scholars offering further insight into the instructional design process.
• Numerous examples, based on the authors' experiences in business, higher education, and K-12 education, emphasize the practical application of the instructional design process.

Collaborative input from leading practitioners and scholars provide insights to the instructional design process through Expert Edge contributions

• Includes real-world insights from practicing instructional designers from around the world who share their own knowledge, successes, and failures.
• Realistic problems challenge you to apply and expand your knowledge.
• Presents practice “here’s how it’s done” guidance on each element of the instructional design process.

Reader Reviews
I have had to read this text for a doctoral level curriculum class. Frankly, it is a very dry, uninteresting presentation of curriculum theory and models. This is a serious flaw, considering this is a textbook designed to instruct learners how to design effective and stimulating curriculum. In addition, the authors do not seem to understand their audience. They appear to be directing their instruction toward business, industry and technology. However, there is an occasional reference toward educators, hardly recognizing that curriculum instruction is directly related to context of area concentration. The shifting back and forth between learning theories and characteristics in list format is distracting. A good text should act as a tool for guidance. This one totally misses the mark.