Instructional-Design Theories and Models: An Overview of Their Current Status

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• About This Book xi
• Suggestions for Reading This Book xiii
• Foreword xv
• Reference xvi
• Unit I Instruction: What the Discipline is Like 1
• 1: Instructional Design: What is It and Why is It? 3
• Contents 3
• 2: A Metatheory of Instruction: A Framework for Analyzing and Evaluating Instructional Theories and Models 37
• Contents 37
• 3: Descriptive and Prescriptive Theories of Learning and Instruction: An Analysis of Their Relationships and Interactions 55
• Contents 55
• Unit II Models and Theories of Instruction 71
• 4: Contributions of Gagné and Briggs to a Prescriptive Model of Instruction 75
• Contents 78
• Contents 97
• 5: A Behavioral Approach to Instructional Prescription 101
• Contents 102
• 6: The Algo-Heuristic Theory of Instruction 163
• Contents 164
• 7: Instructional Strategies Based on the Structural Learning Theory 213
• Contents 214
• 8: A Cognitive Theory of Inquiry Teaching 247
• Contents 248
• 9: Component Display Theory 280
• 10: The Elaboration Theory of Instruction 336
• 11: Motivational Design of Instruction 383
• Contents 384
• Unit III Commentary 435
• 12: Is Instructional Theory Alive and Well? 438
• Concluding Remarks 473
• Author Index 477
• Subject Index 483

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