The need for better methods of instruction dose not end with public education. Instruction is concerned primarily with how to teach. On the most general level, the area of instruction can be viewed as being comprised of five major activities : design ...
The need for better methods of instruction dose not end with public education. Instruction is concerned primarily with how to teach. On the most general level, the area of instruction can be viewed as being comprised of five major activities : design is, as it is to optimizing the process of instructing, concerned with understanding, improving, and applying methods of instruction. An aspect of instructional design have developed out of learning theory, and the other aspect have developed out of media, communications. But the media and communications tradition's contributions to instructional design have been in the from of isolated strategies and principles rather than integrated models and theories (Reigeluth, 1983). The major portion of instructional design's antecedents comes from the traditional learning theory Instructional design's conception can be primarily attributed to Skinner, Gagn?, Bruner, Ausubel. Thish paper reviews these traditional instruction-learning theories based on the instructional design theory. These Theories have had important roles in the development of instrustional design. Skinner's operant conditioning motivated the scientific investigation of instruction as it empirically tested model of instruction. And Skinner developed programmed instruction applied operant conditioning principles Gagn?'s learning hierarchies has provided instructional designers with a rational and procedures for determing what prerequiste knowledge is necessary to support present learning. Brunner proposed a prescriptive instructional theory because instruction was to prescribe optimal methods of increasing learning effect. And he developed a model of instruction based on discovery methods and stages of intellectual development. The essential criterion for discovery learning is that the learner organize into final from the material to be learned. Ausubel developed a model of instruction based on expository methods and cognitive structures. And he proposed the subsumption theory the concept of subsumer, conbinational subsumption, anchoring ide and learning set.