The authors discuss topics appropriate for augmenting the ADDIE paradigm for instructional design. The topics selected are based on data from a study of working professionals who successfully completed an instructional design and technology certificate program and who identified related topics that they regarded as beneficial. The participants…

This article presents a detailed description of the powerful and necessary role which technology can play in the information-age paradigm of education described in the four articles comprising this series. This article calls for a learning management system (LMS), a comprehensive and integrated application of technology to the learning process,…

It is the intent of this article to describe a philosophy and initial application of an accountability system which can aid in coping with the problems of our occupationally related schools." (Author/AA)

Describes the Instructional Management Accountability Model, developed at Florida Atlantic University, designed to provide a framework for implementing mandated accountability in the preparation and certification of teachers. The model focuses upon program, facility and staff. (RAO)

A planning model for the identification of components, activities, and tasks in educational programs and problem solving situations is described. (RAO)

Defines (a) the role that a management information system (MIS) should play in directing processes of planned change and (b) the types of information which the MIS must gather through various feedback loops if systematic as opposed to crisis oriented change is to take place. (Author)