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ID 101 Designing Instructional Systems
Spring 2000


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Instructional Design Background Knowledge Probe

The following questions are designed to assess your general knowledge regarding the field of instructional design. THIS IS NOT A TEST. Its purpose is to provide the instructor with feedback that will assist her in providing effective and efficient instruction in this class.

  1. What is instructional design?
  2. What skills do you think an instructional designer needs in order to be effective?
  3. What experience have you had in creating instruction for education or industry?
  4. What process did you go through to create this instruction? List the steps.
  5. Select a non-instructional process that you are familiar with and list the steps that are required to complete this process.
  6. What do you anticipate learning in this course?