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Reference Material / Books

The Trainers guide: a practical manual for the design, delivery and evaluation of training
By Richard L Sullivan

Aspen Pub Inc, 1990, Published in USA
298 x 260mm, illustrations
HARDBACK 0-8342-0116-X
Author Title Code: SULL-TRAI

Designing Training (1996)
By Alison Hardingham
IPD London
How to Design & Deliver Quality Service Training (1992)
By Tony Newby
KoganPage
Employee Development (1997)
By Rosemary Harrison
IPD London London

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Internet Links

http://www.ibstpi.org/summary.html
IBSTPI Core Competencies - Summary of the Core Competencies
Developed in The Standards Instructional Designer Instructor Training Manager Determine projects that are appropriate for instructional design.

http://www.nprdc.navy.mil/wworks/analysis.htm
Findings About the Analysis of Instruction.

http://www.nprdc.navy.mil/wworks/manage.htm
Finding About the Management of Instruction.

http://www.nprdc.navy.mil/wworks/design.htm
Findings About the Design & Development of Instruction.

http://literacynet.org/diversity/
Multiple Intelligences for Adult Literacy & Adult Education
This site discusses how to incorporate the Theory of Multiple Intelligence into teaching basic skills and adult literacy. It gives ideas for assessment and teaching tips to help you to develop learning strategies in terms of the seven intelligences.

http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/language-australia/cgea/3fls.html
Certificates in General Education for Adults (CGEA)
This site encourages flexibility in teaching Adults and suggests ways of teaching. There are tips for forming groups and interaction between the tutor and the learner. Links: to CGEA Home page, and other resources.

http://www.capecod.net/~tpanitz/tedspage/
This is Ted Panitz's Cooperative Learning and WAC web site.
The site includes Panitz's Cooperative Learning e-book. There is a lot of reading to do on this particular subject. It is divided into eighteen sections. There are other articles by Panitz on the same subject on this web site as well. Panitz has an e-book about WAC on the site too (WAC = Writing Across the Curriculum). The full book can be accessed but it is also divided into specific sections that can be accessed individually. Overall, there is a lot of information on this web site.

http://www.online.edu/
On-line Education Company
This is a commercial site. However, it features good course outlines. There is also a "studying on-line" demo. This takes a minute or two to download but it is full of details on how the course is designed and shows how the student interacts throughout the course with quizzes and various other novelties.

http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/it/edit186/gagne.html
Robert Gagne
This informative site on Robert Gagne comes courtesy of San Jose State University. The home page consists of a numbered list ranging from 1 to 8 charting Gagne's Events of Instruction. The links take a tour through a short tutorial based on these. Further activities from the Instructional Systems course are available by hyperlink, together with an overview of the syllabus.

http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/educ/tip/23.htm
Robert Mager
This site gives a broad overview of Mager's Criterion Referenced Instruction with embedded links to other research papers on learning by Knowles and Rogers. A good range of jumps leads through a corridor to various other learning theories, such as Scandura's Structured Learning Theory. The site is well referenced, with good links to related sites. There is an abundance of valuable resources here.

David Merrill
http://ifets.gmd.de/people/d_merrill.html
Merrill was one of the pioneers of computer-based training (CBT). His research on knowledge objects has been incorporated into many of the tools used to develop CBT courseware. You can access many of his research papers on this site. His main areas of research include:

Instructional design
Knowledge objects
Authoring systems

http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwitr/features/leaders/jonassen.html
David Jonassen
This site carries an interesting interview with Professor David Jonassen. It covers:

How Jonassen became involved in Instructional Technology
His research agenda
What he considers to be his two most interesting research papers
People who influenced his career
What future he envisages for Instructional Technology
Advice for beginners in Instructional Technology

http://www.officeport.com/edu/blooms.htm
Benjamin Bloom
For information on Bloom, this site is one of the most informative. You can download a diagram representing Bloom's Taxonomy, with a brief description of the theory. Links: there are very good links to sample questions and also to other web sites dealing with Bloom. Information is clearly presented and links are distinct and logical.

http://mailer.fsu.edu/~wwager/dick_bio.html
Walter Dick
Walter Dick is a major theorist on systematic design of instruction. You can take a tour through his course modules at Florida State University on this site, for example: ·

Instructional systems design
Instructor-led instruction ·
Performance systems analysis

http://mailer.fsu.edu/~wwager/keller_bio.html
John Keller
John Keller is a leading expert on motivation in instructional design. He also teaches at Florida State University. Keller's homepage contains just a photograph, with contact information and two links at the bottom of the screen. One or two clicks away from this and Keller opens up the entire overview of his instructional system, the ARCS model.

http://www.nprdc.navy.mil
This is a military site which is low on friendliness but high on content. The aim of this site is "to review and synthesize evidence from research on instruction and learning." This site would be of interest to professionals interested in theory and research. The navigation on the site is so-so (rather ironic - this being the navy!). The site does have one major fault, the text on the screen goes right the way across and is quite small, making it difficult to read.

http://homepage.tinet.ie/~mjcollins/Process.htm
This link from Mike Collins' the site provides a full guide to creating a training course on any subject. It goes through the whole process, including Needs Analysis, Designing and Developing your course, Implementing the Course and Evaluating students.

http://tis.eh.doe.gov/techstds/standard/hdbk1074/hdb1074.html
This Dept. of Energy (USA) site presents "Alternative Systematic Approaches to Training". It consists of six main sections: General Guidance, Analysis, Training Design, Training Development, Training Implementation, Training Evaluation. There is also an Introduction, Conclusion and Appendices. One Appendix in particular deals with the "Minimum Elements for a Systematic Approach to Training."

http://www.soe.purdue.edu/~lehman/edci560/intro560.htm
The subject of this web page is a course entitled "Microcomputer Applications for Education and Training", which is offered by Purdue University in the USA. There are 112 course objectives in total. These are listed under different headings such as: Introduction to Instructional technology, Instructional Planning, Instructional Implementation, and Evaluation and Management of Instructional Technology. Each section of objectives is further divided into a set of Knowledge Objectives and Application Objectives.

The different theories of learning are contrasted in the Week One of the Lecture notes. All of it is linked in with the use of computers in instructional design. Week 15 of the lecture notes has interesting points to make about the future of education and instructional design, with some discussion of virtual reality, and resources for the future. There are links to the lecture notes of each of the fifteen weeks of the course.

http://www.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itcon.html
This is an Instructional Design resource site provided by the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Denver. There are papers available on it covering all aspects of Instructional Design. It is basically an online library. It would not really be possible to give a thorough review of this web site, as there is literally so much information on it. Unfortunately a lot of the links are out of date ( Best Overall Instructional Technology Web Site 1995). CHECK

http://cleo.murdoch.edu.au/ajet/ajet.html
The Australian Journal of Educational Technology publishes research and review articles in educational technology, instructional design, educational applications of computer technologies, educational telecommunications and related areas. Published annually, this cyber-journal offers plenty of articles on WBT and related areas. It includes back issues going back to1985. Interesting if you would like to read about the development of educational technology as it actually happened. However the site is not the prettiest in the world.

http://itech1.coe.uga.edu/ITForum/home.html
This is an electronic discussion forum for people interested in Instructional Design in a cyber environment (CBT/WBT). Described on a link as "probably the electronic discussion forum for matters in this field", this site serves as resource for people working in the field. Although some of the site is still under construction the discussion forum is up and running. John Keller has made a number of contributions to this site, and so has David Merrill. Both are leaders in Instructional Design research. You will find more information about them under the heading "Instructional Design" on this list.

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