This valuable resource provides instructional designers with the guidance they need to meet the challenge of creating effective and efficient instruction. Maintaining a careful balance between theory and application, the Fourth Edition presents a practical, easy-to-follow approach to instructional design that can be applied to K-12 classrooms, higher education, distance education, and business programs. The authors incorporate behavioral and cognitive approaches into their model, so that readers can reap the benefits of both.

Ch. 1.Introduction to the instructional design process -- Ch. 2. Identifying the need for instruction -- Ch. 3. Learner and contextual analysis -- Ch. 4. Task analysis -- Ch. 5. Instructional objectives -- Ch. 6. Designing the instruction : sequencing -- Ch. 7. Designing the instruction : strategies -- Ch. 8. Designing the instructional message -- Ch. 9. Developing instructional materials -- Ch. 10. many faces of evaluation -- Ch. 11. Developing evaluation instruments -- Ch. 12. Conducting formative and summative evaluations -- Ch. 13. Learning theory and instructional theory -- Ch. 14. role of the instructional designer at work -- Ch. 15. Planning for instructional implementation.