Instructional+Design

=**Instructional Design**=

Instructional Design Theories []

Australian Education Review No.43: Instructional Design In Technical Areas
Author(s): John Sweller

Publisher: ACER Press, 1999
Instructional designers, teachers, trainers and education students are provided with techniques to develop students' understanding, learning and problem solving. The rationale behind these techniques is also clearly explained.
 * //Instructional Design in Technical Areas//** details the findings of John Sweller and his research team, who have used cognitive principles and a large range of experiments to devise a variety of instructional designs. Although the program focused on technical subjects such as mathematics, science and technology education, the findings can be easily applied to a range of language-based, non-technical areas. The topics covered include:
 * aspects of our cognitive architecture relevant to instructional design
 * cognitive load theory
 * instructional designs associated with learning to solve problems
 * mixing audio and visual materials

Purposeful Classroom by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey at this link