Instructional Materials Development

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Instructional Materials Development

• Week 13
• EdTech 572

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Major Points

• Using all your prior analysis
• Determining if existing materials will do the job
• Identifying the focus instructor-centered or
  student-centered
• Writing the materials

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Using Your Prior Analysis

• Use your instructional design that includes your
  needs analysis, learner analysis and behavioral
  objectives to outline the flow of instructional
  materials.

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Can existing materials do the job?

• Look at existing materials and textbooks to see
  if any or all will serve your instructional
  needs.
• If not, then proceed with your instructional
  materials development.
• If yes, look to modifying or adjusting materials
  to fit instructional needs.

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Instructor-Centered or Student-Centered

• Instructor-centered material focuses on the
  instructor delivering the content, through
  lecture, demonstration, slide show and so on, and
  monitoring student progress.
• Student-centered can be self-paced or instructor
  monitored while students learn individually or in
  small groups. Delivery of the content is not
  dependent on the instructor. He/she monitors
  student achievement of goals. Typically
  computer-based instruction is student-centered.

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Writing the Materials (from P. 250-252 of D C)

• Plan and write the instructional materials based
  on the instructional design in rough form that
  your submitted. Use rough drawings or graphics
  before your decide on final graphics, an
  expensive move. Make a rough set of materials as
  complete as is reasonably possible for each
  instructional activity.

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Continued

• Using the materials developed in this first
  inexpensive, rough draft, begin evaluation
  activities.
• You can either develop materials for the the
  instructors manual as you go along or develop it
  later from notes taken during evaluation runs of
  the lessons.

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Examples

• From your instructional design
• Introduce concept with a short lecture and demo.
• Lead discussion amount impact of experiment.

• From your instructional materials
• (Write outline of lecture and description of
  demonstration)
• (Write discussion questions and output you
  expect.)

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Summary (from P. 264 of Dick Carey)

• Use your instructional goal and analysis.
• Stay true to your behavioral objectives.
• Develop assessment based on objectives.
• Keep in mind the learner analysis and learner
  diversity.
• Attend to characteristics of the learning and
  performance contexts.

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Continued

• Cluster and sequence your objectives.
• Develop pre-instructional materials.
• Complete your assessments.
• Identify media selections.
• Develop content presentation.
• Develop learner participation activities.
• Identify memory and transfer skills.