Instructional Design

Explore the principles of learning, various instructional design models, and innovative educational strategies to enhance teaching and learning experiences across different platforms.

Instructional Design

1 Learning and Instruction

  1. What is Learning?
  2. Learning and Change in Behaviour
  3. Basic Conditions of Learning
  4. Approaches to Learning
  5. Perspectives of Learning
  6. What is Instruction?
  7. Relationship Between Learning and Instruction

2 Behaviouristic School of Thought

  1. What is Behaviourism?
  2. Learning through Stimulus-Response (S-R)
  3. Pavlov and Classical Conditioning
  4. Watson’s Learning Theory
  5. Thorndike and Connectionism
  6. Skinner and Operant Conditioning
  7. Gagne’s Learning Theory
  8. Social Learning Theory
  9. Application of Behaviourism in Instructional Design

3 Cognitivist School of Thought

  1. What is Cognitivism?
  2. Information Processing Theory
  3. Jean Piaget’s View of Cognitive Development
  4. Bruner’s Theory of Instruction
  5. David Ausubel’s Theory of Learning
  6. Humanistic Perspective in Learning
  7. Cognitive Theories and Their Implications

4 Constructivist School of Thought

  1. What is Constructivism?
  2. Constructivism and Instructional Design
  3. Discovery Learning
  4. Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
  5. Scaffolding
  6. Cognitive Apprenticeship
  7. Contextual Learning
  8. Anchored Instruction

5 Instructional Design- An Overview

  1. Concept of Instructional Design
  2. Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction
  3. Banathy’s Design of Instructional Systems
  4. Keller’s Motivational Design of Instruction
  5. Dick and Carey Model
  6. Bergman and Moore Model
  7. Smith and Ragan Model
  8. ASSURE Model
  9. Constructivist Instructional Design Models

6 Component Display Theory (CDT)

  1. Component Display Theory (CDT): An Overview
  2. Dimensions of CDT
  3. CDT and Instructional Strategies
  4. CDT: Recent Developments
  5. Implications of CDT for Designing Instruction

7 Elaboration theory (ET)

  1. Elaboration Theory (ET): An Overview
  2. Components of Elaboration Theory
  3. Developing an Elaboration Sequence
  4. Implications of Elaboration Theory to Instructional Design

8 Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) and Cognitive Flexibility Theory (CFT)

  1. The Changing Trend Between Instructional Psychology and Instructional Design
  2. Cognitive Teaching Model
  3. Types of Cognitive Load
  4. Predictions for Student Learning
  5. The Cognitive Flexibility Theory (CFT)

9 Theory of Multiple Intelligence

  1. What is Intelligence?
  2. Multiple Intelligences: An Overview
  3. Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences
  4. Components of Multiple Intelligences
  5. Implications of Multiple Intelligences Theory

10 The 4C/ID (The Four Component/Instructional Design) Model

  1. Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations of 4C/ID Model
  2. The Four Components: Blueprint
  3. Ten Steps for 4C/ID Model
  4. Application of 4C/ID: Example of Wiki Skills Training
  5. Educational Implications of 4C/ID Model

11 The ADDIE Approach (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate)

  1. Instructional Design (ID) Approach: ADDIE
  2. Analysis Phase: Learning Environment Analysis
  3. Design Phase: Designing for Learning
  4. Development Phase
  5. Implementation Phase
  6. Evaluation Phase: Evaluation of Learning
  7. Adaptation to the ADDIE Approach (Rapid Prototyping)

12 Learners’ Characteristics and Learning Styles

  1. The Characteristics of Learners
  2. Learner Centric Approach
  3. Learning Styles: The Concept
  4. Families of Learning Styles
  5. Learning Styles in Distance Education

13 Designing Learning

  1. Need for Designing Learning
  2. Instructional Objectives and Designing Learning
  3. Taxonomies of Learning Objectives
  4. Designing a Blue-Print
  5. Evaluating Learning Objectives

14 Development of Learning Resource

  1. Concept of Learning Resources
  2. Significance and Need of Learning Resources
  3. Universal Design
  4. Features of Learning Resources
  5. Types of Learning Resources
  6. Guidelines for Designing Learning Resources

15 Evaluation of Learning

  1. Purpose of Assessing Learning
  2. Evaluation Measures
  3. Types of Evaluation
  4. Kirkpatrick Model of Assessment
  5. Assessment Techniques in Distance Learning

16 Instructional Design in Classroom

  1. Classroom Instructional Environment
  2. Levels of Instructional Design
  3. Analysis of Syllabus and Unit Design
  4. Lesson Planning
  5. Implementation of the Lesson Plan

17 Instructional Design in Training

  1. Concept of Training and Phases of Designing Training Programmes
  2. Context Analysis
  3. Job Analysis
  4. Task Analysis
  5. Gap Analysis
  6. Cost Analysis
  7. Trainee Analysis
  8. Preparing Training Objectives
  9. Organizing Training Content
  10. Designing Instructional Strategies
  11. Selecting Training Methods and Media
  12. Designing Assessment Strategies
  13. Course Description: Training Plan, Lesson Plans

18 Instructional Design in Distance Education

  1. Need for Designing Instructions in Open and Distance Education
  2. Characteristics of Open and Distance Education Learners
  3. Goals, Aims and Objectives
  4. Course Planning and Sequencing the Curriculum
  5. Developing Assessment Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy
  6. Illustrative Devices

19 Instructional Design in Multimedia

  1. What is Multimedia?
  2. Interactivity and Interaction
  3. Interactive Multimedia (IMM)
  4. Designing of IMM
  5. ADDIE Approach

20 Instructional Design in e-Learning

  1. What is e-Learning?
  2. Designing e-Learning Courses
  3. Phases of Designing e-Learning Courses
  4. Rapid Instructional Design and Rapid e-Learning

21 Portfolios- A Review

  1. Portfolio: Concept and Purpose
  2. Portfolios and Instructional Design
  3. Types of Portfolios

22 Design and Development of ePortfolios

  1. Meaning and Importance of ePortfolios
  2. Components of an ePortfolio
  3. Types of ePortfolios
  4. Steps in Developing an ePortfolio