REVISIONING MODELS OF INSTRUCTIONAL-DEVELOPMENT

Instructional development (ID) models are almost as numerous as the pr actitioners of instructional development. The role of models in instru ctional development is to provide conceptual and communication tools t hat can be used to visualize, direct, and manage processes for generat ing episodes of guided learning. Instructional development can be prac ticed in a variety of settings and various models have been created th at reflect this variation. This article presents some of the early his tory of instructional development models, reviews some of the more inf luential ID models, and discusses the possible impact of selected tren ds on futgure models of instructional development.