Instructional Design – What Is It?

Instructional design is all about delivering information to a known learner in the most effective manner. It is about managing learning by creating effective instructions. Instructional designing is a field that leverages the human art of teaching/facilitating learning by studying the difference between the current (present) and ultimate (desired) skill/knowledge set of a learner. It revolves around bridging the difference between the two. Simple as it might sound and so it is; however, to say this, you need to understand it. As I understand it, instructional deigning is keeping yourself in the shoe of a learner and (1) imagining how you would learn best---by what means, by which content, by which delivery medium, and so on, and (2) developing and delivering content that fulfils that imagination.

Like any other field of science, instructional design owes its present state of understanding to various theories, models, and scientists (mostly psychologists and behaviorists). Apart from talking about the most significant contributions that all of them have made to instructional designing, this blog will present and discuss the new and emerging changes in this field.