Carl Bereiter
Outline of Talk
How Developmental Theory and Instructional Design Got Together
Robbie Case is justly recognized for his powerful combining of developmental theory and instructional design. In historical perspective, this is a more ground-breaking accomplishment than it may appear from the contemporary perspective. At the time Robbie's academic career began, there was no theory available to drive instructional design, only some general ideas and one method--Gagne's task analysis, which is essentially atheoretical. Robbie's first instructional design work was in the atheoretical, intuition-based vein and his progression toward a theory and a methodology that could profitably interact went through several stages before reaching what now seems such a natural synthesis.
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