The purpose of instruction is to help people learn. The goal of instructional designers is to make learning easier, quicker, and more enjoyable. Some people view training as a process of finding out who the brightest employees are. But performance in a course is not very highly correlated with the basic ability to be good on the job. We believe that an instructional designer's job is to help everyone to learn and be successful.

  

• What is the purpose of instruction?
• Challenge: How to make good instruction?
• What are the relevant kinds of learning?
• Levels of Cognitive Learning
• Application-level learning
• Synthesis
• Self-Test