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Peer reviewedReigeluth, 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
Peer reviewedWilson, 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
Peer reviewedStearns, Peter N. – History Teacher, 1979
Discusses the advantages of teaching history sequentially, considering factual, methodological, and conceptual relationships. (CK)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Higher Education, History Instruction
Download full textWilson, 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
Collins, Belva C. – 2003
This paper provides guidelines for the use of videotape recordings for systematic instruction in functional skills for students with moderate to severe disabilities. Four examples illustrate use of videotapes to teach community skills (e.g., crossing a street) to secondary students with moderate disabilities; self care skills (e.g., zipping a…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Basic Skills, Educational Media, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedJordan-DeCarbo, Joyce – Music Educators Journal, 1986
Edwin Gordon took the sequential levels of learning outlined by Gagne and adapted them to audiation (the ability to hear music for which the sound is not physically present) and musical learning. His method of teaching music is discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices, Educational Principles
Saxton, Ruth O. – 1987
The implicit assumption behind personal writing assignments given at the beginning of a writing course is that personal essays eliminate the writing apprehension of having nothing to say. However, college freshmen find it very difficult to write about themselves and their own opinions because this writing involves abstract mental processes and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College English, Course Content, Expository Writing
