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White, Charles S. – Journal of Education for Business, 2007
Traditional education, employing lectures or telecommunicative instruction methods, has been very effective in providing topical facts. However, the development of student skills and thinking ability require higher levels of instruction and more opportunity to practice and apply acquired knowledge. As students progress through a particular…
Descriptors: Intermode Differences, Instructional Design, Learning Strategies, Classroom Techniques
Perkins, D. N. – Educational Technology, 1991
Discussion of constructivism that is based on concerns raised in an earlier issue focuses on demands placed on the learners. Three areas are explored: (1) cognitive complexity; (2) task management, to help sequence students through a learning experience; and (3) learners "buying in" to the constructivist agenda of the instruction. (10…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Learning Processes, Sequential Learning, Task Analysis
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Reigeluth, Charles M. – Educational Technology, Research and Development, 1992
Comments on the preceding article which examined elaboration theory and offered suggestions for updating it to reflect new knowledge. Highlights include the simplifying conditions method; internal versus external knowledge structures; connectionism and authentic tasks; content structure as organizing structure; ill-structured domains; and…
Descriptors: Criticism, Epistemology, Instructional Design, Models
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Wilson, Brent; Cole, Peggy – Educational Technology, Research and Development, 1992
Discusses elaboration theory, an instructional design model for sequencing and organizing courses that is based on cognitive research, and offers suggestions for updating the model to reflect new knowledge. Topics addressed include knowledge representation, including content structure; sequencing issues, including microworld design and cognitive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Criticism, Epistemology, Instructional Design
Wilson, Brent G.; Merrill, M. David – Performance and Instruction, 1980
Shows how elaboration theory (ET) sequences the concepts in a taxonomy and argues that the product of an ET analysis is usually in general agreement with sequencing based on learning prerequisite relationships, and that ET sequencing of taxonomic concepts will not violate learning prerequisite relationships. (Author/MER)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching
Beissner, Katherine L.; Reigeluth, Charles M. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 1994
Discussion of the use of sequencing in instructional design focuses on a project that used a multiple strands elaboration sequence incorporating theory and practice in a physical therapy course. Procedures for parallel elaboration of multiple content strands are listed, future research is suggested, and lesson contents are appended. (Contains 17…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Content Analysis, Instructional Design, Lesson Plans
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Kember, David – Instructional Science, 1991
Examines existing research and instructional design theories for guidelines that encourage a deep approach to learning, i.e., meaningful learning, critical thinking, or independent learning. Highlights include sequencing strategies and elaboration theory, linking concepts, student misconceptions, changing the attitudes of teachers, and projects…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Guidelines, Higher Education, Independent Study
Wilson, Brent; Cole, Peggy – 1992
This paper offers a critique of elaboration theory (ET) based on recent cognitive research and offers suggestions for updating the model to reflect new knowledge. It begins by summarizing the basic strategies of this model for sequencing and organizing courses of instruction: (1) organizing structure; (2) simple-to-complex sequence; (3) sequencing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Course Content, Course Organization, Epistemology