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If you are looking for a method to use that will improve the ability of a person to learn and encourage that person to be actively involved in his or her educational process, then you are looking for instructional design models. The goal of these learning theories is to increase learning opportunities and encourage people to get involved in their learning process so that it means something to them.

Each of us can remember being in school, staring out the window, wishing we were running around outside instead of having the teacher beat phonetics into our heads. This same distant, uninvolved type of learning continued on into our adulthood, when as a professional we were sent to a seminar to learn some new technique or program that could help our job or company and all we could think was, "I’d rather be on that golf course I drove by on the way here."

These are normal reactions to traditional learning situations. The student sits and listens as the teacher lectures to them. Students are supposed to absorb what is being said to them, be able to take notes and then regurgitate on command what was said to them. It isn’t that there is something wrong with this teaching model; the problem is that not all people learn the same way. Instructional design models allow you to engage the person you are trying to teach.

By engaging the learner/student the teacher is encouraging ownership of what is about to take place. Think about the little kids that come home from school after a project is done. They are so proud, and they can tell you everything that they learned while they were doing that project. That is because they actively participated in what was happening. Learning was exciting for them. The same goes for adults when you put them into a learning environment where they get to talk, lead a discussion, debate, and use the tools that they are being taught about.

There are a variety of instructional design models that can be used depending on the leader/teacher and the situations. However, all models have the same 5 basic components. They each contain an analysis, design, development, implementation/delivery, and evaluation. With instructional design models you will find that through each step a formative evaluation should be used and at the end a summative evaluation should be used. This will allow the leader or teacher to get a better grasp on how effective the model he or she is using is and how engaged the students are along the way.

With that being said it is important to note that there are three different strategies that are used within instructional designs. These strategies are the organization strategy, the delivery strategy, and the management strategy. Each strategy is used to facilitate a different response in the learner. While a teacher may desire to use one strategy over another, in an ideal situation you would use all three to completely assess the effectiveness of the instructional design model you were using.

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