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Instructional design

Instructional Design and Curriculum Frameworks

Instructional design is the practice of systematically planning, developing, and evaluating instructional materials and experiences to make learning more effective, efficient, and engaging, typically by analyzing learners' needs and goals and then designing an intervention to close the gap between them. It draws on learning theory, cognitive science, and systems theory, and is often structured around models such as ADDIE, which breaks the process into analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation phases. Instructional designers work across schooling, higher education, and corporate and online training to create everything from classroom lesson plans to large scale online courses. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Core Claim
Instructional design draws on learning theories such as behaviorism, cognitivism and constructivism to systematically plan, develop and evaluate instructional materials that carry a learner from a defined starting state to a defined learning goal. 1
Origin Year
1946 1
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1. Wikipedia: Instructional design
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  • Lead section, paragraph 2
    Learning theories also play an important role in the design of instructional materials. Theories such as behaviorism, constructivism, social learning, and cognitivism help shape and define the outcome of instructional materials.
  • History, Origins section
    In 1946, Edgar Dale outlined a hierarchy of instructional methods, organized intuitively by their concreteness.
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