Instructional Design

Instructional Design

An organization’s educational opportunities often fail due to a lack of attention to the designing of their instructional programs. The following will address what educational design is intended to look like at a heavy equipment operation. Three common types of instructional design will be compared and contrasted to gain a greater understanding of the options available to instructions when designing instructing programs. Additionally, a proposal will appear for a particular instructional design program at the said heavy equipment organization.

Instructional Design Defined

Instructional design is a systematic process to strategically set up the instructional programs and the implementation of learning processes. In the construction field, this often takes the form of collaboration and physically performing tasks to learn. The process starts with a basic breakdown of the task at hand. The individual usually watches others performing a task, having the opportunity to ask questions and being given a checklist of items to note and look out for. Actually operating provides the best instruction because the employee has to get a feel of the machine and the way dirt feels moving with the machine.

Instructional Design Models Comparison

The three models presented for instructional design offer a variety in depth of design. ADDIE appears to be the most simplistic and often employed model. The premise is based on five processes which makes it simple and easily understandable but less detailed than the other two models. The ADDIE approach is also more commonly employed by organizations or businesses (Clark, 2013). The model developed by Dick, Carey and Carey is more appropriate for educational insti...

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...itutional setting. The proposal drafted in this paper is to continue to employ the model by Morrison, Ross and Kemp because it promotes the most flexibility as well as continuous execution and evaluation of the instructional design (Hanley, 2009).

Works Cited

Clark, D. (2013). The Dick and Carey model-1978. Retrieved from http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/history_isd/carey.html

Colorado State University-Global Campus. (2014). Module 1: What is instructional design. Instructional Theory and Design Principles OTL-540.

Hanley, M. (2009). Discovering instructional design 11: The Kemp model. Retrieved from http://elearningcurve.edublogs.org/2009/06/10/discovering-instructional-design-11-the-kemp-model/

People Learn. (n.d.). Kemp, Morrison, and Ross’s instructional design process. Retrieved from http://peoplelearn.homestead.com/MEdHOME2/InstructionalDesign/Kemp.pdf