Instructional Design: International Perspectives. Volume 2

Volume 2: Solving Instructional Design Problems. Edited by Sanne Dijkstra, Franz Schott, Norbert M. Seel and Robert D. Tennyson.

Instructional design theory and practice has evolved over the past 30 years from an initial narrow focus on programmed instruction to a multidimensional field of study integrating psychology, technology, evaluation, measurement, and management. The growth of instructional design (ID) has occurred because of direct needs, problems, and goals from society. Its application in planning instruction first developed in the United States with the Department of Defense during World War II with the purpose of meeting immediate concerns for effective training of larger numbers of military personnel. From the beginning, ID has rapidly expanded into applications in industrial and executive training, vocational training, classroom learning, and professional education. Although ID has its roots in the U.S., applications and theoretical growth is an international activity. However, literature at the international level is still limited to either individual author contributions or collections primarily represented by single countries. As a result, there is no standard reference source that contains the rich variety of theories and applications to form the international foundation for the field. XVIII,418 Seiten, gebunden (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers 1997) textsauber, leichte Gebrauchsspuren/clean text pages, minor traces of use