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ID 101 Designing Instructional Systems
Spring 2000
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For successful completion of this course, you will have developed the following competencies:

1. Understand the multidisciplinary nature of the field of instructional design, and become familiar with its basic components: systems theory, behavioral, developmental and cognitive psychology, theories of learning and application of these theories within existing and emerging technologies.

2. Explain the process of instructional design, and the steps and sub-steps that make up an instructional design model.

3. Select a design model, and follow these steps in design an instructional product:

a. define an instructional problem

d. select instructional strategies

b. conduct needs analysis

e. initiate materials development

c. determine instructional goals

f. develop formative/summative evaluation plan

4. Present your instructional product to the class, explaining the design model used to create it.

5. Become familiar with technologies used to support instruction, including: interactive multimedia, CD-ROM, the World Wide Web, etc. and discuss the challenges of designing for these interactive media.