Are instructional design elements being used in module writing?

This paper discusses the elements of instructional design (ID) and technica l design in module writing. An evaluation instrument was developed to evalu ate the modules written by course lecturers from the School of Distance Edu cation, University Sains Malaysia, In the study, fifty modules (12%) were s elected from the Arts, Science and Engineering courses, The findings of the evaluation showed that instructional modules were weak in a number of elem ents. The study recommended that multimedia and distance learning strategie s should be integrated in the learning activities. Post-test and pre-test m ay be considered to make the learning modules more self-contained, self-ins tructional, and interactive, Courses on distance learning theories, instruc tional design and development, media selection, media attributes, multimedi a production, media integration, utilisation and management in distance and open learning may help course writers to write better modules, The Centre needs to have a standard guideline for module writing, The present guidelin es need to be improved to include other ID and technical elements in module writing.