This document discusses developing instructional strategies for digital learning. It outlines that instructional design is a systematic process that begins with analyzing learning needs and ends with evaluating the learning solution. When developing instructional strategies for digital environments, it is important to understand the learning context, content, and learners, and to strategize how to blend different digital tools and media like computers, internet, video, audio and text. The document also provides an overview of the course content development process and emphasizes that an effective instructional strategy considers both the learner perspective and environmental perspective to enhance the learning experience.

1. Developing a sound instructional
strategy for digital learning
Presentation delivered at “Digital
Convergence for Quality Education” hosted by
CSI, Hyderabad Dec 19-20, 2003.
Madhuri Dubey

2. “Learning involves a fundamental shift of
mind… It does not mean acquiring more
information, but expanding the ability to
produce the results we want in life.”
Peter Senge The Fifth Discipline

3. Learning in the age digital
convergence involves
 Computers
 Internet
 Video
 Audio
 Animation
 Text

4. Convergence = blend
 Learning in the age of convergent
digital technologies
 Significance of blending strategies for
effective learning
 New challenges for designing learning
environments

5. Characteristics of digital media
 Interactive
 Hyperlinked
 Synchronous
 Asynchronous
 Collaborative

6. Instructional Design
 systematic process of designing,
developing and implementing and
evaluating instruction.
 begins with the perception of a learning
need, it proceeds with the creation of a
learning experience and a learning
environment
 ends with an evaluation of the learning
solution.

7. Design = strategy
Design is that area of human experience, skill
and knowledge which is concerned with
man’s ability to mould his environment to suit
his material and spiritual needs.
Archer, B (1973) “The Need for Design Education.” Royal College of Art
A strategy can be defined as a plan or
approach for successful achievement of a goal.

8. Strategizing involves
 Understanding
 The learning context
 How people learn, why and when they are
learning, how will they use learning
 The learning content
 What is being learnt
 The learners
 Who are the learners, how do they prefer to
learn

9. Process for designing digital learning
Analyse
Design
Evaluate ID process
Implement Develop

10. Course content development process
 Analysis
 Needs analysis, task analysis, context analysis, content analysis
 Design
 Content structuring, instructional strategy, prototyping
 Develop
 Flowcharts, Storyboards & Prototypes
 Use of authoring tools, production of learning objects
 Implement
 Deployment on Test environment
 Usability Review, Usability tests and course acceptance test
 Deployment on live environment
 Evaluate
 Post-implementation evaluation

11. Developing an instructional strategy
Learner perspective Environmental perspective
Computer Course content
Domain specific Course duration
skills
Exercises,
Learning styles assignments
Attitude and Assessments
motivation
Support and
feedback
mindset results
Instructional
Strategy

12. Instructional strategy – value
addition
 Ease of use
 Empowers the learner
 Enhances efficiency
 Engaging and enjoyable experience
 Enhances knowledge retention and
application

13. Effective learning through digital
media
 Clarity of goals of learning
 Appropriate choice of delivery media
 Sound instructional strategy
 Built-in process of testing and feedback
 Appropriate tools for content development

14. Questions

15. Thank you