The document discusses the design of instructional programs using Vella's four I's framework: Induction, Input, Implementation, and Integration. It provides an overview of each step in Vella's seven steps of design which are used to plan a program around identifying learners, objectives, content, timeframe, location and transfer of learning. As an exercise, students are asked to work in groups to design a session teaching how to prepare Thanksgiving dinner using the four learning tasks.

1. Planning Instruction with Learning Tasks – the four I’s Class 6, ADLT 606 Fall 2011

11. Vella’s Assumptions about Learners and the Learning Process