Part I
Instructional Design Practice
The first part of this book concerns instructional design practice, or what is it that makes instructional design recognizable as instructional design. Of course, instructional design shares many activities, methods, processes, and techniques with other design, education, or social science fields. So one should focus on instructional design as a particular constellation of practices, the particular configuration of which being what allows instructional designers to make the unique contributions they are prepared to make.
We divide our study of instructional design practice into four subsections - understanding, exploring, creating, and evaluating - each of which consists of 3 - 5 chapters.
Understanding1. Becoming a Learning Designer2. Designing for Diverse Learners3. Conducting Research for Design4. Determining Environmental and Contextual Needs5. Conducting a Learner AnalysisExploring6. Problem Framing7. Task and Content Analysis8. Documenting Instructional Design DecisionsCreating9. Generating Ideas10. Instructional Strategies11. Instructional Design Prototyping StrategiesEvaluating12. Design Critique13. The Role of Design Judgment and Reflection in Instructional Design14. Instructional Design Evaluation15. Continuous Improvement of Instructional Materials