Role of Instructional Design Models and Their Place in Distance Learning

Abstract

Eric Ashby asserts that “any technology which increases the rate of learning would enable the teacher to teach less and the learner to learn more”, (as cited in Singh, 2005, p. 2). In our daily life we see, that children learn better when taught through, haptic games, movies, animations and graphics, thus attractive, animated and learner centred activities helps retention of information in learner for longer duration of time. Also children are more, enthusiastic and interested in learning communication tools like, Blogs, Instant Chats, Video conferencing and Social Softwares. Thus we adopt these technologies in education, to give better experiences to learner and also to make our teaching learning process effective and efficient. Therefore it is important to have understanding of a variety of instructional design models to give experiences and satisfy learners’ needs in an ever rapidly changing environment (Taylor, n.d.). As there are myriads of instructional design models, suited to e-learning it is imperative that the proper model should be employed for the desired learning outcome.

Keywords: instructional design, elearning