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Cremers, Petra H. M.; Wals, Arjen E. J.; Wesselink, Renate; Mulder, Martin – Learning Environments Research, 2016
In today's knowledge society, there is a demand for professionals who are able to create knowledge across boundaries of disciplines, professions and perspectives. Traditional universities, universities of applied sciences and institutions for vocational education are all challenged to educate these knowledge workers. Accordingly, these…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Blended Learning, Educational Principles, Educational Practices
DeLuca, Christopher – Action in Teacher Education, 2012
Within the current accountability context of education in the United States and Canada, there is a clear need to educate teachers on effectively using assessments to support, measure, and communicate student learning. Despite this need, assessment has historically been a neglected area in teacher education programs with comparatively little…
Descriptors: Accountability, Stakeholders, Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs
Imants, Jeroen; van de Ven, Piet-Hein – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2011
A team of secondary school language teachers and a teacher trainer developed a new method for Dutch writing instruction. The principles underlying the method were derived from insights regarding activating instruction and self-directed student learning. The development entailed two phases. In the first phase, the exploration of actual problems in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Development, Writing Instruction, Instructional Design
Lowyck, Joost; Elen, Jan; Clarebout, Geraldine – International Journal of Educational Research, 2004
Learners are active actors in learning environments and not mere consumers of instructional designers' products. In line with mediating paradigm instructional conceptions of students are analysed. These conceptions act as cognitive filters that affect students' use of both instructional interventions and support in learning environments. To gain…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Educational Research, Educational Environment, Student Behavior
Gao, Fei; Putnam, Ralph T. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2009
Drawing on research literature on online discussion and on reading and learning from the text, we argue that research on learning from text has much to offer but has been largely absent in informing the design and study of online learning environments. We propose several key issues to be considered in research and development of online discussion,…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Computer Mediated Communication, Reading Processes, Learning Processes
Warries, Egbert – 1986
The purpose of an instructional system is to bring about specific changes in the capabilities of individuals; that is, their potential performance of certain intellectual or motor activities. Achievement and attitudes of learners entering into instruction constitute the input of the system, while their change capabilities are the output. Because…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Research, Educational Theories, Instructional Design
Caffarella, Edward P.; Sachs, Steven G. – 1988
This directory of doctoral dissertations in the field of instructional design and technology that were completed during the decade from 1977 through 1986 is designed to provide a complete overview of that doctoral research. It includes listings of the student's name, graduation year, dissertation title (in a rotated keyword-in-context index), and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Educational Technology, Indexes
Ali, Ali M. – Journal of Instructional Development, 1981
Discusses three issues related to the use of positive and negative examples during instruction: sequence, quality, and quantity of examples. Some possible resolutions based on available research evidence and theoretical work in the field are suggested. Twenty-eight references are listed. (Author/LLS)
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Definitions, Educational Research, Instructional Design

Reiser, Robert A. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2001
Discusses the history of the field of instructional design and technology in the United States. Includes a definition, major features, rational for using instructional design and technology as the label for the field, history of instructional media from 1900 to the present, effects media have had on instructional practices, and the effect…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Media, Educational Research, Educational Technology

Goodyear, Peter; Salmon, Gilly; Spector, J. Michael; Steeples, Christine; Tickner, Sue – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2001
This article is a workshop report and exploration of interim outcomes related to the role and significance of online teachers and exposes a range of ways of understanding online teaching, including from competency, humanistic and cognitive perspectives. The main body of the report concentrates on a competency-based approach. (JMK)
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Media, Educational Research, Educational Technology
Lakkala, Minna; Paavola, Sami; Toikka, Seppo; Bauters, Merja; Markannen, Hannu; de Groot, Reuma; Ben Ami, Zvi; Baurens, Benoit; Jadin, Tanja; Richter, Christoph; Zoserl, Eva; Batatia, Hadj; Paralic, Jan; Babic, Frantisek; Damsa, Crina; Sins, Patrick; Moen, Anne; Norenes, Svein Olav; Bugnon, Alexandra; Karlgren, Klas; Kotzinons, Dimitris – Online Submission, 2008
One of the central goals of the KP-Lab project is to co-design pedagogical methods and technologies for knowledge creation and practice transformation in an integrative and reciprocal manner. In order to facilitate this process user tasks, driving objectives and high-level requirements have been introduced as conceptual tools to mediate between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Programming, Computer System Design, Educational Technology

Clement, Catherine A.; Yanowitz, Karen L. – Instructional Science, 2003
Two experiments examined the role of analogy in the development of a situation model of a target passage, specifically, whether an analogous source text could improve comprehension and inferencing about causal mechanisms in the target. Responses of analogy subjects were more likely to include given and inferred information that comprised the…
Descriptors: Analogy, Causal Models, Comprehension, Educational Research
Spector, J. Michael – Educational Technology & Society, 2000
Suggests that there is an identifiable landscape (context, perspectives, sets of issues, methods, and values) associated with instructional design. Key features of that landscape include assumptions about the nature of being a person and living in society. Without some identifiable instructional landscape there is little possibility for progress…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices, Educational Principles

Lin, Xiaodong – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2001
Proposes a framework for thinking about how metacognition research might apply to design activities. Examines two basic approaches to supporting metacognition: strategy training, and creation of a supportive social environment for metacognition. Identifies two kinds of content that are taught using these two approaches: knowledge about a specific…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Instructional Design, Instructional Development
Richey, Rita C. – 1994
Developmental research, as opposed to simple instructional development, has been defined as the systematic study of designing, developing, and evaluating instructional programs, processes, and products that must meet criteria of internal consistency and effectiveness. Developmental research is particularly important in the field of instructional…
Descriptors: Definitions, Educational Research, Educational Technology, Evaluation Methods