Basic Theories of Instructional Designing

With E-learning coming of age, Instructional Designing has grown in leaps and bounds. The growing importance of Instructional Designing has led to many studies in this field, which have brought a variety of learning theories to the field of Instructional Designing.

In this post, let us know the most widely known theories of Instructional Designing:

Behaviorism:

Behaviorism as a learning theory can be dated back to Aristotle. The primary focus of the theory is to study the overt behavior that can be clearly seen and measured. This learning theory aims at shaping the behavioral

Instructional Designing (ID) – Simplified

Instructional Designing (ID) is an important part of E-learning. Although there are tens of hundreds of definitions of ID, they are so often, so heavy with e-learning jargons that a layperson never feels that he has understood the meaning of this term.

This blog post is an attempt to simplify the meaning of Instructional Designing to all and sundry.

Let us understand Instructional Designing by drawing parallels. One parallel that I can think of is a Lesson Plan.  

Take a scenario: