Designing Effective Instruction

Updated and revised, the sixth edition of Designing Effective Instruction equips educators with practical skills for successful instructional design.

 The organization of Designing Effective Instruction allows instructor to adapt the sequence to the class, as well as to the instructor’s own perspective. The main focus is on the basics of instructional design helping students develop a solid foundation in the design process. Students and designers can then use and adapt these basic skills in a variety of settings such as multimedia, classroom, and distance-education instruction.  In this 6^th edition, there are been a significant amount of updates to all the chapters to including recent trends and research, a one new chapter (10) and changed the organization and content of the final chapters.

Key Benefit: This exciting text offers a solid rationale and a set of specific procedures for designing instruction. Key Topics: Grounded in current instructional design trends, the latest cognitive psychology research, and constructivism, Designing Effective Instruction establishes a foundation for systematic instructional planning, then presents a ten-element model that combines both behavioral and cognitive philosophies to create a flexible, heuristic framework for designing both traditional classroom and non-traditional, interactive learning programs.