Instructional Technology Foundations  |   Psychological Foundations  |   Contrasting Perspectives  |   Instructional Design  |   Evaluation and Assessment  |   Implementation and Change  |   Systems Theory  |    Human Performance Technology  |   Message Design  |   Digital Technologies  |   User-Centered Design  |   Distance Education  |   Soft Technologies  |   Research: Basic Concepts  |   Research: Paradigms and Methodologies

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Instructional Technology Foundations

Seels, Barbara B. and Richey, Rita C. (1994). Instructional Technology: The definition and domains of the field. Washington DC: Association for Educational Communications & Technology. Chapters 1, 3, and 5.

Eraut, M. (1994). Educational technology: Conceptual frameworks and historical development. In Torsten Husen, and T. Neville Postlethwaite (Eds.). The International Encyclopedia of Education (2nd ed). Oxford: Elsevier Science.

Molenda, M. and Sullivan, M. (in press) Issues and trends in instructional technology. In Robert Branch (Ed.) Educational Media and Technology Yearbook 2000. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.

Johnston, Jerome (1987). Electronic Learning: from Audiotape to Videodisc. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Reiser, Robert A. (1987). Instructional technology: A history. In Robert Gagne (Ed). Instructional Technology: Foundations. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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Psychological Foundations

Knowles, Malcolm (1996). Adult learning. Chapter 12 in Robert L. Craig (Ed.) The ASTD Training and Development Handbook, 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill

Driscoll, Marcy (1994). Psychology of Learning for Instruction. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
A succinct overview of the whole area of learning and instruction. Chapter 10, Gagne's Theory of Instruction is required reading. The sections on Epistemology of Learning, Piaget, Vygotsky, and Constructivism are outstanding summaries of these topics. Use what you need to fill in gaps in your understanding.

Gardner, Howard (1993). Multiple intelligences: The theory in practice. New York: Basic Books. Chapters 1-4 for the basics, plus at least one of the later chapters that address arenas of application.

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Contrasting Perspectives

Burton, John K., Moore, David M., and Magliaro, Susan G. (1996). Behaviorism and Instructional Technology. In David H. Jonassen (Ed.). Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology. New York: Macmillan.

Duffy, Thomas M. and Cunningham, Donald J. (1996). Constructivism: Implications for the Design and Delivery of Instruction. In David H. Jonassen (Ed.). Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology. New York: Macmillan.

Winn, William and Snyder, Daniel. (1996). Cognitive perspectives in psychology. In David H. Jonassen (Ed.). Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology. New York: Macmillan.

Ertmer, Peggy and Newby, Timothy J. (1993). Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism: Comparing critical features from an instructional design perspective. Performance Improvement Quarterly 6(4), 50-71.

Bruner, Jerome (1990). Acts of Meaning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Saettler, Paul (1990). The Evolution of American Educational Technology. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited. Chapter 10: Behaviorism and Educational Technology.

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Instructional Design

Schiffman. Shirl S. (1995). Instructional Systems Design: Five views of the field. Chapter 11 in Gary Anglin (Ed.). Instructional Technology: Past, Present, and Future. 2nd ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.

Gagne, Robert M. & Merrill, M. David (1990). Integrative goals for instructional design. Educational Technology Research & Development, 38(1), 23-30.

Molenda, Michael., Pershing, James A., & Reigeluth, Charles M. (1996). Designing instructional systems. In Robert Craig (Ed.), The ASTD Training and Development Handbook, 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Thiagarajan, Sivasailam (1993). Just-in-time instructional design. In Piskurich, G. (Ed.) The ASTD Handbook of Instructional Technology. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Mager, Robert F. (1984). Preparing Instructional Objectives (rev. 2nd ed.). Belmont, CA: David S. Lake. Chapters 3-7.

Romiszowski, Alexander J. (1981). Designing Instructional Systems. New York: Nichols. Chapters 1, 2 and 9.

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Evaluation and Assessment

Rubin, Jeffrey (1994). Handbook of usability testing: how to plan design, and conduct effective tests. New York: Wiley. Chapters 1-3.

Robinson, Dana Gaines and Robinson, James C. (1990). Training for Impact: How to link training to business needs and measure results. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Shrock, Sharon & Coscarelli, William. Criterion-Referenced Test Development. Washington DC: International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI). Parts I, II, and IV.

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Implementation and Change

Dormant, Diane. (1999). Implementing human performance technology in organizations. In Harold Stolovitch & Erica Keeps (Eds.) Handbook of Human Performance Technology (2nd ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer.

Rogers, Everett (1995). Diffusion of Innovations (4th ed.). New York: Free Press.

Van den Akker, J. (1994). Designing innovations from an implementation perspective. In Husen, Torsten & Postlethwaite, T. Neville. (Eds.). The International Encyclopedia of Education. 2nd ed. Oxford, U.K.: Elsevier Science.

Cuban, Larry (1988). Teachers & Machines: The classroom use of technology since 1920. New York: Teachers College Press.

Clayton, John S. (1979). Comment: Inhibitors to the application of technology. Educational Communication and Technology Journal, 27, 157-163.

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Systems Theory

Hutchins, C. Larry (1996). Systemic Thinking: Solving complex problems. Aurora, CO: Professional Development Systems.

Senge, P. (1994). The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization. New York: Doubleday.

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Human Performance Technology

Rosenberg, Marc J.; Coscarelli, William C. and Hutchinson, Cathleen Smith. (1999). The origins and evolution of the field. Chapter 2 in Harold Stolovitch & Erica Keeps (Eds.) Handbook of Human Performance Technology (2nd ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer.

Spitzer, Dean R. (1999). The design and development of high-impact interventions. Chapter 9 in Harold Stolovitch & Erica Keeps (Eds.) Handbook of Human Performance Technology (2nd ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer.

Rosenberg, Marc J. (1996) Human performance technology. Chapter 18 in Robert Craig (ed.), The ASTD Training and Development Handbook, 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Rossett, Allison. (1996) Job aids and electronic performance support systems. Chapter 27 in Robert Craig (ed.), The ASTD Training and Development Handbook, 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Mager, Robert F. (1984). Analyzing Performance Problems, or, You Really Oughta Wanna (2nd ed.). Belmont, CA: David S. Lake.

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Message Design

Heinich, Robert; Molenda, Michael; Russell, James; and Smaldino, Sharon (1999). Instructional Media and Technologies for Learning (6th ed.). Columbus, OH: Prentice-Hall. Chapter 3, Visual Principles.

Saettler, Paul (1990). The Evolution of American Educational Technology. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited. Theoretical Rationale for the Visual Instruction Movement, pp. 140-143.

Braden, Roberts A. (1996). Visual literacy. In David H. Jonassen (Ed.). Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology. New York: Macmillan.

Hartley, James. (1996). Text design. In David H. Jonassen (Ed.). Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology. New York: Macmillan.

Moore, David M.; Burton, John K.; Myers, Robert J. (1996). Multiple-channel communications: The theoretical and research foundations of multimedia. In David H. Jonassen (Ed.). Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology. New York: Macmillan.

Shneiderman, B. (1992). Designing the User Interface: Strategies for effective human-computer interaction. 2nd ed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. Chapters 1, 2, 13 and Afterword and pp. 72 -73.

Winn, William (1993). Perception principles. Chapter 2 in Malcolm Fleming and W. Howard Levie (Eds.), Instructional Message Design. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.

Dale, Edgar (1946). Audiovisual Methods in Teaching (1st ed.). New York: Dryden Press. Part I, pp.2-66.

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Digital Technologies

Hannafin, Michael J.; Hannafin, Kathleen M.; Hooper, Simon R.; Rieber, Lloyd P.; and Kini, Asit S. (1996). Research on and research with emerging technologies. In David H. Jonassen (Ed.). Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology. New York: Macmillan.

McLellan, Hillary. (1996). Virtual realities. In David H. Jonassen (Ed.). Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology. New York: Macmillan.

DeCorte, Verschaffel, and Lowyck. (1994). Computers and learning. In Torsten Husen & T. Neville Postlethwaite. The International Encyclopedia of Education. 2nd ed. Oxford: Elsevier Science.

Hannafin, Michael J. and Rieber, Lloyd P. (1989). Psychological foundations of instructional design for emerging computer-based instructional technologies, Part 1. Educational Technology Research & Development, 37(2), 91-101 and Part 2. ETRD, 37(2), 102-114.

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User-Centered Design

McKnight, Cliff; Dillon, Andrew & Richardson, John. (1996). User-centered design of hypertext/hypermedia for education. In David H. Jonassen (Ed.). Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology. New York: Macmillan.

Mitchell, C.T. (1993). Redefining Designing. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. Chapter 6.

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Distance Education

Wagner, Ellen D. (1999). Beyond distance education: Distributed learning systems. In Harold Stolovitch & Erica Keeps (Eds.) Handbook of Human Performance Technology (2nd ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer.

McIsaac, Marina Stock and Gunawardena, Charlotte Nirmalani. (1996). Distance education. In David H. Jonassen (Ed.). Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology. New York: Macmillan.

Bates, A.W. (1994). Distance education. In Torsten Husen & T. Neville Postlethwaite. The International Encylclopedia of Education. 2nd ed. Oxford: Elsevier Science.

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Soft Technologies

Heinich, Robert; Molenda, Michael; Russell, James; and Smaldino, Sharon (1999). Instructional Media and Technologies for Learning (6th ed.). Columbus, OH: Prentice-Hall. Chapter 12, Process Technologies.

Grabinger, R. Scott. (1996). Rich environments for active learning. In David H. Jonassen (Ed.). Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology. New York: Macmillan.

Thiagarajan, Sivasailam(1996). Instructional games, simulations, and role-plays. Chapter 25 in Robert L. Craig (Ed.) The ASTD Training and Development Handbook, 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Albanese and Mitchell (1993). Problem-based learning: A review of literature on its outcomes and implementation issues. Academic Medicine 68(1), 52-81.

Schwen, Thomas M.; Goodrum, David A; and Dorsey, Laura T. (1993). On the design of an enriched learning and information environment (ELIE). Educational Technology 33(11), 5-9.

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Research: Basic Concepts

Saettler, Paul (1990). The Evolution of American Technology. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.
Instructional Media in WWII (pp. 186-194); The University of Chicago Experiments (pp. 224-225; Research on ID and Media (pp. 436-441)

Schwen, Thomas M. (1977). Professional scholarship in educational technology: Criteria for judging inquiry. AV Communication Review 25, 5-24.

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 Research: Paradigms and Methodologies

Knupfer, Nancy Nelson & McLellan, Hillary. (1996). Descriptive research methodologies. In David H. Jonassen (Ed.). Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology. New York: Macmillan.

Ross, Steven M. & Morrison, Gary R. (1996). Experimental research methods. In David H. Jonassen (Ed.). Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology. New York: Macmillan.

Savenye, Wilhelmina C. & Robinson, Rhonda S. (1996). Qualitative research issues and methods: An introduction for educational technologists. In David H. Jonassen (Ed.). Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology. New York: Macmillan.

Driscoll, Marcy (1995). Paradigms for research in instructional systems. In Gary J. Anglin (Ed.). Instructional Technology: Past, Present, and Future. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.

Frick, Theodore. Scope of Knowledge Created Through Disciplined Inquiry. http://education.indiana.edu/~frick/r690/#scope

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