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AUTOMATING INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, AND DELIVERY
by Professor R.D. Tennyson, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (U.S.A.)
The theme of this book (NATO ASI SERIES F119) is that applying advanced hardware and software technologies to the design, development and delivery of instruction can result in improved student learning and enhanced courseware authoring efficiency. Efforts to realize these benefits of automation will be most effective if they are informed by cognitive learning theory and are guided by established instructional emphases on student motivation, specification of objectives and evaluation of results.
Each of three instructional system development phases (i.e., planning, production, and implementation) are examined in this book from four viewpoints: (a) motivation for automation; (b) theoretical issues involved in automation; (c) implementation issues involved in automation; and (d) evaluation of the automation process and results.
This book explores what can be done using new technologies in accord with principles of cognitive science. As such, the book is a blend of theory and application. The emphasis is on what is possible and what works. This book proceeds on the assumption that teachers are powerful and intelligent people who mold minds and shape lives. Putting powerful and intelligent instructional design and development tools in the hands of such people will have an extremely positive effect on learning.
Additionally, this book provides new knowledge in the area of automating instructional design, development and delivery by bringing together the best practitioners and academicians from Europe and North America. Illiteracy in industrialized countries is increasing at a time when technology demands skilled and educated populations. To insure that education keeps pace with advances in technology we must find the means to make the process of designing, developing and delivering instruction more effective and more efficient.
As Europe and North America become a more integrated society, maintaining a modern educational basis throughout the two continents will remain a high priority issue. Sharing research findings and developments that can already produce meaningful improvements in the educational system was and still is a basic motivating factor for the workshop and this book.
Reference books: F81, F84, F89, F90, F91, F104, F105, F119, F121, F125, F128, F132, F133, F135