Instructional Design / Merrill’s five principles of instruction

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I've been reading about Instructional Design and Merrill’s Instructional Design Principles here on the Instructional Design Australia site. They give a great overview.

Who is this Merrill chap? This site does list references, which is fabulous, but introduces Merrill in text as "David Merrill (a respected educational researcher and teacher)" - which doesn't bear a lot of weight. Perhaps it is my critical thinking filter wanting to highlight the source material in text so as to validate its worth. The article is brief and covers key points on LDP clearly.

Merrill’s five principles of instruction are:

• Problem-centred
• Activation
• Demonstration
• Application
• Integration

Link to the page to expand on the above.

A tune for today

Other resources on remote teaching and learning Instructional Design Principles for Remote Teaching and Learning

Instructional Design Australia provide resources on Merrill to read up on:

• Merrill, M. D. (2002). First principles of instructional design. Educ. Technol., Res. Dev. 50: 43–59.
• Merrill, M.D., Tennyson, R.D. & Posey, L.O. (1992). Teaching concepts: An instructional design guide (2nd Ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.