Instructional Technology (IT) is a field concerned with improving the efficiency and effectiveness of learning, performance improvement and instruction through:
- Designing instruction (including all the phases of activity from needs assessment to evaluation)
- Applying learning theory to instructional design
- Selecting delivery systems and designing techniques for a given delivery system
- Assessing human characteristics
- Conducting process and product evaluation
- Managing change and adopting innovations
- Building teams and managing projects
- Integrating instruction with other factors that influence human performance
- Implementing delivery to reach learners when they need it
- Using technology in support of the development and delivery of instruction.
Instructional Technology is the theory and practice of design, development, utilization, management and evaluation of processes and resources for learning.
- Instructional Design seeks to teach how to plan, develop, evaluate and manage the instructional process effectively to ensure improved performance by learners.
- Instructional Technology's goal is to understand how people learn and how to best design instructional systems and instructional materials to facilitate that learning. We also use appropriate technology to aid us in the design and delivery of the instruction.
- Instructional Technologists are today's problem solvers. They look to understand performance problems and design solutions to those problems. Sometimes the solution is instructional; other times the situation requires a non-instructional solution.
The Instructional design approach considers instruction from the perspective of the learner rather than from the perspective of the content, the traditional education and training approach.
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