Educational Psychology - Applications in Instructional Design and Technology

Applications in Instructional Design and Technology

Instructional design, the systematic design of materials, activities and interactive environments for learning, is broadly informed by educational psychology theories and research. For example, in defining learning goals or objectives, instructional designers often use a taxonomy of educational objectives created by Benjamin Bloom and colleagues. Bloom also researched mastery learning, an instructional strategy in which learners only advance to a new learning objective after they have mastered its prerequisite objectives. Bloom discovered that a combination of mastery learning with one-to-one tutoring is highly effective, producing learning outcomes far exceeding those normally achieved in classroom instruction. Gagné, another psychologist, had earlier developed an influential method of task analysis in which a terminal learning goal is expanded into a hierarchy of learning objectives connected by prerequisite relations.

  • Intelligent tutoring system
  • Educational technology
  • John R. Anderson
  • Cognitive tutor
  • Cooperative learning
  • Collaborative learning
  • Problem-based learning
  • Computer-supported collaborative learning
  • William Winn
  • Constructive alignment

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