Instructional Design

Learner control options are the choices an instructional program gives students over what they study, in what order, at what

Signaling and emphasis cues are visual or verbal markers that point learners toward the most important parts of a lesson,

Modality and redundancy choices are decisions instructional designers make about how information reaches learners and whether the same message is

Multimedia learning principles are research-based guidelines that describe how people learn best from lessons combining words, pictures, audio and video.

Pretraining and schema building is a design approach in which instruction introduces the core ideas and labels of a topic

Segmenting instruction is the practice of dividing a lesson into smaller, self-contained parts that a learner can absorb one at

Example to practice transfer describes the process by which a learner takes what they absorbed from a worked example and

Worked examples design is the practice of building step-by-step solutions that show learners exactly how a problem is solved before

Interleaving practice selection is the deliberate choice of mixing different problem types or skills within a single practice session, rather

Spaced retrieval activities are short practice tasks in which learners pull information from memory at planned intervals rather than rereading