Elements of Instruction

<p><em>The Elements of Instruction</em> provides a common vocabulary and conceptual schema of teaching and learning that is fully applicable to all forms of instruction in our digital-centric era. This critical examination of educational technology’s contemporary semantics and constructs fills a major gap in the logical foundations of instruction with special attention to the patterns of communication among facilitators learners and resources. The book proposes a new framework for organizing research and theory clear concepts and definitions for its basic elements and a new typology of teaching-learning arrangements to simplify the selection of optimal conditions for a variety of learning goals. As trends in media technology and methodology continue to evolve these historically contextual back-to-basics pedagogical tools will be invaluable to all instructional designers and educational researchers.</p>