Discusses designers' need to design educational software for subversive use, recognizing that users fit the use of technology-based environments into contextually tuned "situated" learning environments. In this sense, good design is volatile design, or design which changes with contextual use. These ideas are illustrated with reference to a range…

Explains Total Quality Management (TQM), a participative management style, and examines its relationship to Instructional Systems Development (ISD) as it is used for curriculum development. Application of TQM principles to the ISD processes of analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation is suggested. (eight references) (LRW)

This instructional design looks at momentum in physics through railroading, to assist students in developing appropriate mental models that will enable them to solve problems relevant to the process or principle being taught. A PEAnet (process, entity, activity network) relationship enables an instructional visualization (simulation) in which…

The technology for information organization, communication, storage, and use today is the book. It has evolved over 3000 years (in its modern form over 500 years) to the mature object we currently enjoy. The book is now the primary technology used in education. But with the development of the computer and the Web, a new electronic information…

A look at the overall design of macro evaluation, or the strategies to measure results of individual or singular classroom activities and experiences. (Author/HB)

This article describes how study-units in the module form can be built up to produce an effective learning process. These modules are self-contained, independent study-units on which a modular instructional system is based and which might be parts of mastery learning systems. (Author)

A discussion of the research findings on the differences between student self-selection of performance standards and externally imposed performance standards. (HB)

Author discusses how to bridge the gap between technology and application by actually giving them experience in applying effective techniques. (Author/HB)

Applications of the theory of competency based instruction on a university-wide basis. (Author)

Author discusses how to bridge the gap between technology and application by actually giving them experience in applying effective techniques. (Author/HB)

Suggestions for altering the traditional textbook format for instructional materials. (HB)

Presents a task checklist designed to assist in implementation of the Responsive Education Program, or any new instructional program. (RAO)

Assumptions that learning is basically concept development and that it is also a process of successive approximations of a terminal behavior lead the author to a definition of concept and a hierarchy of concept development. The nine-stage model of cognitive development is presented in a chart with sample items and instrumentation for each state.…