A Brief Guide to
Instructional Development
Michael R. Chial, Ph.D.
Department of Communicative Disorders
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Welcome!
This
site offers a concise treatment of ideas useful for
developing, modifying or evaluating instruction. It is
intentionally more strategic than tactical. Underlined items
are links.
I
hope you find it useful.
Assumptions
About Teaching & Learning
Lessons
from 30 years in the trenches.
Learning
Optimizers
There's
a system to these things. Positive change can be
designed.
Instructional
Objectives
How
can you know you've arrived without a map?
Strategic
Goals for Development
The
four "E"s of instructional development.
Models
for Evaluating Instruction
The
big picture. Turns out, some of it is fuzzy.
Measuring
Outcomes
Individual
and group effects can be measured. Authentic assessment of
instruction requires planning.
A
Design Model for Mediated
Instruction
A
top-down model focusing on three areas of
technique.
Quality
in Mediated Instruction:
A User
Perspective
What
your students really want.
Marketing
Matrix
This
may be the long and short of everything.
"Rules"
for Instructional
Presentations
Simple
(but solid) principles with implications for successful
classroom presentations.
Ethics,
Best Practices, and the
Professoriate
Broader
principles that guide what we do and how we do
it.
Applied
Evil
Wanna
be a really nasty professor?
Conveying
Expections about
Professionalism
Just
tell students what you expect.
References
Useful
print-media resources.
Post-Modern Fairy Tale
Not
for children.
Is your
syallabus super or sucky?
Some are, some
aren't
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Book
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a note, a comment, or just say hello.
Links
Some
interesting sites dealing with instructional development and
instructional technology.
