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Introduction to
Instructional
Design
Instructional
Design
Models
Instructional
Designer's
Role
Needs
Analysis
Learner
Characteristics/
Context Analysis
Task
Analysis
Instructional
Objectives
Sequence and
Strategies of
Designing Instruction
Instructional
Delivery
Methods
Evaluation,
Developing Evaluation
Instruments
Formative and
Summative
Evaluation

Identifying Instructional Objectives   

  Introduction to Instructional Objectives (2:23)

Learning Objectives
   
Learners will:

  1. Indicate the purposes instructional objectives have in the design process.

  2. Identify the parts of a learning objective.

  3. Write clear statements of instructional objectives stating specific learning outcomes.

  4. Write instructional objectives in various learning domains at the appropriate level of intellectual aptitude or skill ability.  

  5. Arrange objectives in a sequence the ensures preordinate objectives build toward more advanced objectives.

  6. State how objective can be refined and used to assess student learning and evaluate the instruction. 

Readings

  1. Morrison, Ross, and Kemp, Chapter 5.

  2. Ever wonder what verbs to use in writing an instructional objective?  wonder no more as you view this fairly comprehensive list of Key Words in Instructional Objectives, thanks to Brian Phelps.

  3. Overview of instructional objectives.

Assignments

  1. After completing the readings, go to the self-check on writing instructional objectives.  Analyze these objectives for their accuracy and quality.  Indicate on a piece of paper if you feel they are adequate objectives.  If they are not, indicate what revision they require.  Access the key to check your answers.  Monitor your activity with writing objectives so that you feel comfortable and proficient at the task.  Afterward, work with your team to identify objectives for each goal in your design.  Your design should contain from 5 to 8 goals with 2 to 3 objectives, each meeting all the criteria for an effective design.

  2. Design Document 1
    You are now ready to start constructing your instructional design.  From the work you've done in previous units, you will submit the first phase of a design in the form of Design Document 1.  That document will consist of . . . 

    1.      The Problem Statement:  A specific, concise statement of the problem which your instruction addresses.

    2.      Goal Analysis:  The refined set of goals that the instruction will achieve.

    3.      Analysis of Learner Characteristics:  This section will consist of two parts, the general characteristics of the learners and the entry competencies required or expected of the learners.  

    4.   Task analyses.

    5.      The final instructional objectives that will guide your continued design.

Discussion
Thursday, Oct.
24, 2002  8:00 p.m.
Chat Transcript

Guest:  Randy Knuth, Pacific Regional Educational Laboratory
Dr. Randy Knuth is a former science teacher from western Montana.  After teaching for several years Randy packed up his family and moved to Bloomington, IN where he completed his doctorate in Instructional Technology at Indiana University.  For nearly ten years Randy worked at the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory in Chicago where he led key educational technology initiatives.  Before leaving he served as director of the lab's technology consortia.  Randy now lives with his family in Spokane, WA where he works for the Pacific Regional Educational Laboratory.  In almost every facet of his work, Randy has applied design principles.  He'll share some of that work with us.