ID EXPERT(TM) - A 2ND-GENERATION INSTRUCTIONAL-DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM

This paper describes ID Expert, an intelligent computer-based multimed ia interactive instructional development and delivery system. This pap er illustrates the following features of this system: Instructional de sign principles can be built into reusable instructional strategy comp uter algorithms (instructional transaction shells). This feature signi ficantly reduces the programming task and insures more effective instr uctional strategies than often results when a strategy must be rebuilt for every lesson or course. A decoupled knowledge base makes it possi ble, at the click of a button, to attach or unattach a given knowledge object to a reusable preprogrammed instructional strategy. This featu re significantly reduces the instructional development effort. Instruc tional strategies specified by parameters makes it possible, at the cl ick of a button, to change an instructional strategy. This feature sig nificantly reduces the effort required for designing or redesigning a lesson or course. instructional strategies specified by parameters mak es it possible to design multiple strategies for a given course or les son and makes it possible, at the click of a button, to change from on e strategy to another. When implemented for modification during instru ction, based on student performance, this feature makes possible adapt ive instruction.