<p>Web technologies have necessitated a transformation culture in higher education<br />
institutions. Many of these institutions are employing web technologies whose<br />
development, for varying reasons, is not supported by research in their field and<br />
domain of use. One such field is instructional design for the web learning.<br />
Although there is a lot of research on the most effective instructional design<br />
strategies, the use of research for web-based learning applications has been<br />
limited. <br />
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This thesis reports on a study aimed at transforming the research on instructional<br />
design into practice by designing an instructional design system and providing an<br />
argument for its implementation. The argument is intended to facilitate the design<br />
and development of an instructional design subsystem of the web, that would in<br />
turn offer effective and efficient ways for creating web-based learning materials<br />
to instructors.<br />
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The study started by examining the various paradigms, theories and practices of<br />
instructional design with the intent of using them to enrich and improve the<br />
practice of instructional design in web learning. It undertook a thorough and<br />
systematic review of the literature on instructional design in order to come up<br />
with an instructional design system. The design approach used successful design<br />
patterns that have been used elsewhere, e.g. in software design, to create common<br />
responses or solutions to recurrent problems and circumstances. Instructional<br />
design patterns were identified in this study as the recurrent problems or processes<br />
instructional designers go through while creating instructional materials, whose<br />
solutions can be reused over and over again.<br />
<br />
This study used an iterative developmental research process of finding and<br />
modelling an instructional design process as the research methodology. This<br />
process follows and builds on existing research on instructional models, theories<br />
and strategies, and ensures that the same methodology can be used to test the<br />
theories in the design, thus improving both the research and the design.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UNWC/oai:UWC_ETD:http%3A%2F%2Fetd.uwc.ac.za%2Findex.php%3Fmodule%3Detd%26action%3Dviewtitle%26id%3Dinit_6396_1173965600 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Njenga, James Kariuki |
| Source Sets | Univ. of Western Cape |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Theses and Dissertations |
| Format | |
| Coverage | ZA |
| Rights | Copyright: University of the Western Cape |
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