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E D I T I O N
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN
PATRICIA L . SMITH
TILLMAN J. RAGAN
The University of Oklahoma
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To our daughters, Bessie and Patty,
from whom we have learned
more than we have taught
A B O U T T H E A U T H O R S
Patricia L. Smith is Professor Emeritus in the Instruc- Tillman J. Ragan is Professor Emeritus in the Instruc-
tional Psychology and Technology program at the tional Psychology and Technology program at the
University of Oklahoma. She received her Ph.D. in University of Oklahoma. He received his Ph.D. in In-
Instructional Systems from Florida State University in structional Technology from Syracuse University in
1982. Dr. Smith is author of two books and numerous 1970. Dr. Ragan is author of five books and numerous ar-
journal articles, technical reports, and chapters on ticles, technical reports, and chapters on instructional
computer-based instruction and instructional design. technology, and he has been a columnist for Educational
She has served as president of the Research and Theory Technology magazine. He has served on many committees
Division and as a member of the board of directors of and has been president of the Research and Theory
that division as well as the Division of Instructional Division and of the Division of Instructional
Development (now “Design and Development”) of the Development (now “Design and Development”) of the
Association for Educational Communications and Tech- Association for Educational Communications and Tech-
nology. She has also served as co-chair of the Professors nology, vice-president of the International Visual
of Instructional Design and Technology conference and Literacy Association, and co-chair of the Professors of
as president of the Instructional Technology Special Instructional Design Technology conference. His area
Interest Group of the American Educational Research of interest is instructional technology, with particular
Association. Her primary areas of interest are instruc- interest in learner characteristics, visual literacy, and
tional design, particularly the design of organizational applications of computer technology to the facilitation
strategies, design of print-based instruction, instruc- of learning.
tional feedback, and program evaluation.
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P R E F A C E
This book is intended to be of assistance to anyone who ment), learners, and learning tasks. The section also
is interested in facilitating learning. contains the chapter on assessment of learning.
We hope that this text is helpful to people who are The third section, Instructional Strategies, is concerned
both interested in learning what has become known as primarily with micro-level strategies to facilitate learn-
“mainstream” instructional design, as well as alterna- ing. A separate chapter is provided for strategies leading
tives, innovations, and enrichments. In addition to a to the learning of eight distinct categories of learning:
number of truly valuable contributions from recent declarative knowledge, concepts, principles, proce-
work, we find that not all that is characterized as “new” dures, domain-specific problem solving, cognitive
in our field is in fact so new, and hope to provide a thor- strategies, attitude change and motivation, and psy-
ough-enough background to allow the reader to decide. chomotor skills. The approach to design of instructional
This text is predicated upon the belief that designers strategies is tied closely to cognitive learning theory and
need both skill in using procedures from accepted prac- related research, in which the cognitive requirements
tice as well as the ability to engage in problem solving of particular learning tasks, along with context and
from the standpoint of underlying concepts and princi- learner characteristics, are used to inform instructional
ples. Thus, although we offer extensive procedural as- strategy decisions. The final chapter in this section is de-
sistance, we emphasize the foundations and first voted to macro-level strategies and integration of learn-
principles upon which most of the models and proce- ing in larger units of study.
dures in our field are built. The text provides a founda- The fourth section, Implementation, Management, and
tion upon which users can adapt the design process to Evaluation, is comprised of a chapter on implementation
fit their unique contexts. of instruction, a chapter on management of instruction,
Despite the youth of the instructional design spe- and a chapter on formative and summative evaluation
cialty, it has developed a rich mainstream. In recent of instruction.
years, theory and practice involved in designing instruc- The fifth section, Conclusion, has one chapter which
tion have been enriched by ideas and approaches from supplies concluding comments and recommendations
many perspectives. However, too many people from such as “fast track” design approaches and the principle
both within the specialty and outside it have begun to of appropriate technology. The chapter also includes an
speak of the design of instruction as if it were uninflu- effort at pulling the material of the whole book together
enced by new ideas, or that it is an atheoretic, proce- into a summary. The chapter concludes with observa-
dure-bound practice with little or no research, or that it tions on future directions of interest to the field.
gets new ideas in the facilitation of learning only from
outside the specialty. Our experience with instructional
design is that it is a rapidly changing, theory-rich, chal-
Changes in the 3rd Edition
lenging and rewarding field of research and practice. Two chapters, Chapter 17, Implementation, and
Chapter 18, Management of Instruction, are new addi-
tions. We are pleased to be able to offer what we believe
Organization of the Text is a helpful treatment of these two areas of critical im-
The text is organized into five main sections. portance to most instructional designers. The new
The first section, Introduction, provides an introduc- chapter on implementation provides recommendations
tion to instructional design itself and a discussion of that can substantially increase the likelihood that in-
philosophical and theoretical foundations. structional design efforts will be successful. The chapter
The second section, Analysis and Assessment, includes contains practical implementation suggestions. These
chapters on analysis of context (including needs assess- suggestions draw heavily upon information about con-
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