Instructional-Design Theories and Models

Academic unit or major

Graduate major in Social and Human Sciences

Instructor(s)

Toshiki Matsuda

Class Format

Exercise (Face-to-face)

Media-enhanced courses

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Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

5-6 Mon

Class

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Course Code

SHS.D445

Number of credits

010

Course offered

2024

Offered quarter

1Q

Syllabus updated

Mar 14, 2025

Language

Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

Students learn the basic knowledge necessary of instructional technology for the design of lessons, instructional materials, and educational ICT systems while understanding the latest related research trends.
In order to learn instructional design techniques through experience, the course will use both the IAG system, an e-learning platform for developing effective instructional materials, and PowerPoint to completing exercises of each class.
Students will also organize their results on developed instructional materials as research papers, and make presentations.

Course description and aims

Students are required to achieve following objectives:
1) Understand evaluation viewpoints of educational technology research and methods for creating original and valuable themes in educational technology research through literature reviews.
2) Explain procedures, ways of viewing and thinking, and internal knowledge necessary for performing better research as well as the reasons of their necessity, based on "warp and woof model of problem solving" and exercises in instructional material development.
3) Explain student models and communication strategies useful for designing lessons and instructional materials, and methods of formative and summative evaluation for instructional materials and educational practices.

Keywords

Instructional technology, instructional design, ID process model, learning science, teaching and learning process, taxonomy of educational objectives, student model, meta-cognition, ways of viewing and thinking, dimensional analysis, nine events of instruction, ARCS model of motivation, GBS theory,

Competencies

• Specialist skills
• Intercultural skills
• Communication skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

- Students are required to study each e-learning material and complete the exercise before attending the class. At the beginning of a class, a knowledge confirmation test is conducted. After its answer is explained, mutual assessment, discussion about the pre-exercise, and/or exercise to develop an e-learning material is performed. Students are assigned homework for each exercise class.
- Students are required to inform own m-domain e-mail address before April 8th at noon to grad-ask[at]et.hum.titech.ac.jp.

Course schedule/Objectives

Study advice (preparation and review)

To enhance effective learning, students are recommended to preview and review the e-learning materials and to do each homework exercise until next lesson.

Textbook(s)

Students are required to check the following web-page to get information about this course (both before and after starting the course).
www.et.hum.titech.ac.jp/~matsuda/grad-ID/new.html

Reference books, course materials, etc.

・Toshiki Matsuda, Atsuko Hoshino, and Kazuhiko Hatano (2013) Lesson Improvement with Learners: Instructional Design, Method of Instruction, and Educational Assessment. Gakubunsya (In Japanese)
・Gagné, R.M., Wager, W.W., Golas, K.C., and Keller, J.M.(2005）Principles of Instructional Design (5th ed.), Wadsworth: Belmont, CA
・Walter Dick, James O. Carey, Lou Carey (2013) The Systematic Design of Instruction (7th ed.) Pearson Education

Evaluation methods and criteria

・Students will be assessed based on knowledge confirmation tests, homework exercises, and final examination.
・Students who have not finished e-learning materials before each lesson nor submitted any assignments will lose their credit .
・Grades are awarded based on e-learning and knowledge confirmation tests (30%), final exam (40%), and assignments (30%).

Related courses

• LAT.A203 ： Educational Technology
• LAT.A407 ： Exercise of Designing Gaming Instructional Materials
• SHS.D464 ： Exercise of Practical Research on Educationl Technology S
• SHS.D465 ： Exercise of Practical Research on Educationl Technology F

Prerequisites

・Students are required to send an application e-mail that includes ID, name, laboratory name, and e-mail address to following contact address until the next Friday after the first class.
・Students are required to bring own Windows PC in order to develop an e-learning material on the IAG system.

Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).

grad-ask[at]et.hum.titech.ac.jp

Office hours

Please send an e-mail for appointment.

Other

・End-term examination focuses on evaluation of memorization and understanding of keywords, important concepts and cases, and methods of instructional design