Why this Book is Important
The Holistic 4D Model offers many novel features to greatly improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and appeal of the ID process and the resulting instruction. It takes a modern, holistic approach to the ID process and is organized into four major activities: Define, Design, Develop, and Deploy.
The Model’s most notable features include heuristic and procedural guidance for:
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A holistic design process with multiple levels of design
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Cycles of analysis-design-evaluation (ADE)
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Templates to aid in the design process
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Instructional strategies integrated into the ID process
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Learner-centered instructional strategies for personalized, competency-based learning
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Holistic instructional sequences using the Simplifying Conditions Method (SCM)
About the Book
This textbook provides fundamental guidance for designing learner-centered instruction for developing task expertise (skills) across educational and training contexts. This textbook is structured into units on defining, designing, developing, and evaluating the instruction.
Addressing the field’s need for improvement in design process models, the book introduces graduate students, faculty, instructional designers, and learning experience designers to the Holistic 4D Model as a framework through which they can conduct a one-semester ID project in a small team.
Chapters include procedural and heuristic guidance, plentiful real-world examples, and activities to help novice and experienced instructional designers better connect theory to practice.
Intro
Chapter 1. Instructional Design
Define
Chapter 2. Define the Project
Design
Chapter 3. Considerations for Design: Theories of Learning and Instruction
Chapter 4. Other Considerations for Design
Chapter 5. Top-Level Analysis, Design and Evaluation
Chapter 6. Mid-Level Analysis, Design and Evaluation
Chapter 7. Lower-Level Analysis, Design and Evaluation
Chapter 8. Lower-Level ADE: Instructional Strategies for Just-in-Time Tutorials
Develop
Chapter 9. Development
Chapter 10. Formative Evaluation
Afterword
Support for Designers
This book's website provides support for instructional designers, teachers, professors, and trainers in their use of this book in their instructional design projects or courses.
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It provides electronic copies of all the templates and other forms offered in the book, as well as improvements or additions to those forms.
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It provides electronic copies of tables that offer guidance for various aspects of design. You can download and print them for easy reference as job aids.
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It will provide examples from your fellow designers or professors and their students that you can offer to your students or colleagues to help them learn and apply the book’s guidance to their own projects.
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It provides a place where you and your fellow designers or professors can offer suggestions for improving the Holistic 4D Model and the book.
The Holistic 4D Model