Automating Instructional Design: Computer-Based Development and Delivery Tools

This volume in the NATO Special Programme on Advanced Educational Technology features diverse international work on the automation of instructional design. The book establishes an initial knowledge base for the new field of courseware engineering.

Inhalt
and Keynote Paper.- 1. Automating Instructional Design: An Introduction.- 2. Infrastructure for Courseware Engineering.- 1. Planning.- 3. Instructional System Development: The Fourth Generation.- 4. Looking for the Right Answers or Raising the Right Questions? A Dialogical Approach to Automating Instructional Design.- 5. Open-Ended Learning Environments: Foundations, Assumptions, and Implications for Automated Design.- 6. Psychological Processes of Planning in Instructional Design Teams: Some Implications for Automating Instructional Design.- 7. Psychological Foundations for Automated Instructional Design.- 2. Production.- 8. Automating Decision Support in Instructional System Development: The Case of Delivery Systems.- 9. Scalability in Instructional Method Specification: An Experiment-Directed Approach.- 10. Complex Technology-Based Learning Environment.- 11. Fuzzy Logic Instructional Models: The Dynamic Construction of Programming Assignments in CASCO.- 12. Integrated Courseware Engineering System.- 13. Automated Instructional Design via Instructional Transactions.- 14. Integrating Systems Thinking and Instructional Science.- 15. Automated Instructional Design Advising.- 16. Facilitating Discovery Learning in Computer-Based Simulation Environments.- 3. Implementation.- 17. Designing an Interactive Instructional Design Tool: Overcoming the Problem of Indirection.- 18. Toward a Model for Evaluating Automated Instructional Design Systems.- 19. Evaluation as a Tool for Research and Development: Issues and Trends in Its Applications in Educational Technology.- 20. Integrating and Humanizing the Process of Automating Instructional Design.- 4. Working Group Summaries.- 21. Automating the Production of Instructional Material.- 22. Automating InstructionalPlanning.- 23. Instructional System Development: Contributions to Automating Instructional Design Planning.- 24. A Model of Interaction: In Search of a Holy Grail.- 5. Appendem.- 25. Employment of System Dynamics in Modeling of Instructional Design (ISD4).- Author Index.