Article describes the planning and design of a part-time continuing education program for intermediate-level rural development staff, and presents reasons why a combination of more localized and individual teaching-learning media was chosen in preference to the national mass media. (Author)

A look at a course in estate planning developed at the American College of Life Underwriters incorporating the case study method. (HB)

Author argues that individual assessment of the students learning style should precede the decision of which teaching method is appropriate. He applies the medical terminology of diagnosis-prescription to this method of instructional development for management. (HB)

Article discusses the development and use of systematic tools and techniques for instructional improvement. (GB)

Describes the audio-tutorial program in Botany at Purdue University. Advantages include adaptability to individual stduent needs, integration of laboratory activities and information giving, aid flexibility in use of media and means of presentation. (EB)

Responds to the recommendations of the National Commission on Excellence in Education by proposing the use of media as a method of achieving more effective use of learning time. Three basic patterns of media utilization are outlined: additive, integrated, and independent approaches. (MBR)

Discusses seven principles to follow when designing developmental instruction in the conventions and grammatical forms of written English, focusing on the advantages that a computer assisted instruction format offers over other formats. Principles relate to determining sequence of instructional units, checking retention of prior instruction,…

Research on the characteristics of effective computer-based education (CBE) courseware suggests that content structure and levels of questions presented determine whether the deep cognitive processing requisite for learning takes place. A decision table of types of instructional questions covering Bloom's taxonomy is presented and discussed.…

The proposed three-step strategy for research on human information processing--concept hierarchy analysis, analysis of example sets to teach relations among concepts, and analysis of problem sets to build a progressively larger schema for the problem space--may lead to practical procedures for instructional design and task analysis. Sixty-four…

Makes a distinction between the instructional development which only translates present curriculum into more effective instruction and that which develops both curriculum and instruction. A management structure for developing materials of the "translation" variety is outlined and a writing and programing technique--information mapping--is…