Instructional Design Solutions
"The only kind of learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered
or self-appropriated learning truth that has been assimilated in experience."
Carl Rogers
Instructional design is the systematic specification of instruction to include:
objectives, presentation, activities, materials, guidance, feedback and evaluation.
It applies learning principles to decisions about information content, instructional
method, use of media and delivery system. The goal is to ensure instructional quality,
effectiveness, efficiency and enjoyment.
The purpose
of instructional design is to maximize the value of instruction for the learner
— especially the learner's time. Instruction provides a concentration of life-experience
into a shortened, optimized time frame and provides feedback to ensure that learning
objectives are actually being achieved. Ideally, instruction allows the knowledge,
wisdom and skills of an instructor-author to be personally communicated or demonstrated
to a learner.