Walter Dick

Walter Dick is an instructional designer and educator who was a longtime Professor of Instructional Systems at Florida State University. He is best known as one of the minds behind the Dick and Carey Model, often called the Systems Approach Model, which set out the discrete stages needed to design effective instruction. The model was presented in his book The Systematic Design of Instruction, first published in 1976 according to the page cited here and now in its ninth edition, and it was written with his former graduate student Lou Carey. Dick also wrote about the model's future in the journal Educational Technology Research and Development in 1996, and co-authored Planning Effective Instruction with Robert Reiser. A university wiki notes that he studied alongside Robert Gagne and was strongly influenced by Gagne's The Conditions of Learning.