Chapter 1: Three Trends in Instructional Design

As you read the scholarly literature on ID, you will find two related but very different uses of the term. Both have the core idea that ID involves the creation of instructional materials and educational resources. However, one use of the term ID is to indicate the theories of learning, principles of teaching, and the pedagogical strategies that should be used in creating those educational materials and resources. In this tradition, the core responsibility of the instructional designer is to make the “right” choices about:

This use of the term ID I will call Pedagogical ID because it emphasizes the responsibility of the instructional designer to choose, or help choose, the right way to teach the content that has been selected. In the Pedagogical ID literature, the instructional designer is someone: