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Cognitive design for instructional design

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There is strong interest in the field of instructional design in building expert systems that can provide advice to inexperienced instructional designers. This paper questions whether the expert systems model to advice-giving is in fact appropriate for a design process such as instructional design. An alternate approach based on case-based reasoning and the critic approach to advice-giving is considered to be better adapted to the cognitive needs of this task. The cognitive constraints of the task are used to orient the design of an instructional design workbench. The concept of an ID workbench illustrates the direct application of cognitive science to a complex practical task in the area of design.

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    Philippe C. Duchastel

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Duchastel, P.C. Cognitive design for instructional design. Instr Sci 19, 437–444 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00119389

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