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

List of Tables
Content for WhatHappens Component SkillInterview
Design a Problem Prototype
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Preface
Instructional Strategies for Problem Solving
What Are the Problems with Instruction?
First Principles of Instruction
Finalize the Functional Prototype
Coached Problem Application Using Structural Framework
Designing Functional Prototypes
Furniture Sales
Identify Content Goal and Learner Population
Prescribed Instructional Events for WholeProblem Application
Acquire a Sample of Problem Portrayals
Design Strategies for Component Skills

Instructional Content
Instructional Interaction
Instructional Strategies
WhatHappens Instructional StrategyExperiential
Instructional Strategies for Problem Solving
ProblemCentered Instructional Strategy
ProblemCentered Instructional Strategy
Enhancing Instructional Strategies with Structural Frameworks
Multimedia Implementation Of Instructional Strategies
Critiquing Instructional Strategies in Existing Instruction
Component Skill Checklists
Designing e3 Instruction
Checklist for Component Skills in Photograph Composition
Design Structural Framework and Peerinteraction Strategy
Design Assessment And Evaluation
The PebbleinthePond Instructional Design Checklist
Support for First Principles of Instruction
Direct Research Support for First Principles of Instruction
Conditions
Teaching and Learning Quality Scales
First Principles of Instruction and the Future
Adding Assessment Capabilities to PowerPoint
End User License Agreement
Copyright

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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.