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 ClaimInstructional 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 FAQs
Is ADDIE the same thing as instructional design?
No. ADDIE is one five-stage model, though most instructional design models are variations of it.
No. ADDIE is one model within the field of instructional design, and it is the best known. It organizes the work into five stages: analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation. One education technology reference notes that most instructional design models are variations of the ADDIE model, and that ADDIE was originally developed for the U.S. Army by the Centre for Educational Technology at Florida State University. The same reference says the concept of instructional design can be traced back to as early as the 1950s.
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1. Wikipedia: Instructional design
Wikimedia FoundationLead 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.
Lead paragraph, education-level
Instructional design (ID), also known as instructional systems design and originally known as instructional systems development (ISD), is the practice of systematically designing, developing and delivering instructional materials and experiences, both digital and physical, in a consistent and reliable fashion toward an efficient, effective, appealing, engaging and inspiring acquisition of knowledge.
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