First Principles of Instruction

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John Wiley & Sons, Oct 6, 2012 - Business & Economics - 528 pages
This handy resource describes and illustrates the concepts underlying the “First Principles of Instruction” and illustrates First Principles and their application in a wide variety of instructional products. The book introduces the e3 Course Critique Checklist that can be used to evaluate existing instructional product. It also provides directions for applying this checklist and illustrates its use for a variety of different kinds of courses. The Author has also developed a Pebble-in-the-Pond instructional design model with an accompanying e3 ID Checklist. This checklist enables instructional designers to design and develop instructional products that more adequately implement First Principles of Instruction.
 

Contents

Cover
List of Figures and Tables
Information and Portrayal Compared
Online Premium Content
Acknowledgments
Instructional Strategies for Problem
What Are the Problems with Instruction?
First Principles of Instruction
ProblemCentered Instructional Strategy
Enhancing Instructional Strategies with
Learner Interaction
Introduction
Use the Form of Multimedia That Most Clearly
Designing e3 Instruction
Designing Functional Prototypes
Identify Content Goal and Learner Population

Instructional Content
Each Type of Skill?
Instructional Interaction
AttentionFocusing GuidanceGantt
Coaching and Corrective Feedback
Kindof Instructional StrategyJob
WhatHappens Instructional Strategy
Solving
A ProblemSolving EventA Warm
Example of a Whole ProblemSelling
Design a Problem Progression
Design Strategies for Component Skills
Design Structural Framework and Peer
Finalize the Functional Prototype
Instructional Strategies
Support for First Principles of Instruction
Principles of Instruction
First Principles of Instruction and
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About the author (2012)

M. David Merrill is an instructional effectiveness consultant and professor emeritus at Utah State University. He currently teaches online courses at Brigham Young University Hawaii and University of Hawaii. Since receiving his PhD from the University of Illinois in 1964 he has served on the faculty of George Peabody College, Brigham Young University-Provo, Stanford University, the University of Southern California, Utah State University, Brigham Young University Hawaii, and Florida State University. He is internationally recognized as a major contributor to the field of instructional technology, has published many books and articles in the field and has lectured internationally. Among his principle contributions: TICCIT Authoring System 1970's, Component Display Theory and Elaboration Theory 1980's, Instructional Transaction Theory, automated instructional design and ID based on Knowledge Objects 1990's, and recently First Principles of Instruction. He was honored to receive the AECT Life Time Achievement Award. He resides in St. George, UT.