Instructional Design Workshop

Welcome to the Instructional Design workshop. Please choose one of the main categories below or the associated instructional design resources. You will also find our recommended instructional design books listed below.

Instructional Design Resources:

• Instructional Design Glossary
• Copyright Information
• Materials in the Public Domain
• Bad Error Messages
• Software for Creating eLearning (coming soon)
• Notable Instructional Designers (coming soon)

Books on Instructional Design

This is the collection of the best instructional design books. Click on the links for more information.

	Real World Instructional Design Kathy Cenammo, Deby Kalk		Multimedia Learning R. Mayer
	The Systematic Design of Instruction W. Dick, L. Carey, L. Carey		Instructional Design Theory M. David Merrill
	Writing Training Materials That Work: How to Train Anyone to do Anything W. Forshay, Silber K, M. Stelnki		Designing World-Class e-Learning: How IBM, GE, Harvard Business School, and Columbia University are Succeeding at e-Learning R. Schank
	Principles of Instructional Design R. Gagne, L. Briggs, W. Wager		Instructional Design P. Smith, T. Ragan
	Walter Vincenti – What Engineers know and how they know it.		Christopher Alexander - Notes on the synthesis of form
	Gross – Designing by Constraint		Book by Edwin Layton Jr. – will give a copy to Charles

Books on Usability

	Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability - Steve Krug		Open Here: The Art of Instructional Design, Paul Mijksenaar, Piet Westendorp
	Designing Web Usability - Jakob Nielsen		Designing from both sides of the screen

For more books on instructional design, take a look at these sites:

• http://www.hcibib.org/readings.html#toc-design
• http://useit.mondosearch.com/cgi-bin/MsmFind.exe?QUERY=book+reviews
• http://www.useit.com/books/futurebooks.html

Hierarchical Task Analysis

• Process of decomposing tasks into subtasks
• For learning systems, the required skills and knowledge can be extracted for each sub task given you a hierarchy of what you need to accomplish the task.
• Caution: this can really get out of hand. Many designers are moving away from creating these tasks (see "Attack on ISD")