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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Stefaniak, Jill E.; Tracey, Monica W. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
Design-thinking is an inductive and participatory process in which designers are required to manage constraints, generate solutions, and follow project timelines in order to complete project goals. The researchers used this exploration study to look at how designers in various disciplinary fields approach design projects. Designers were asked to…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Instructional Design, Intellectual Disciplines
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Tracey, Monica W.; Chatervert, Lake, Kristy; Wilson, Robert – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2008
This design case focuses on the redesign of Advanced Instructional Design, a capstone course taught in a Midwestern university's Masters of Training and Development program. The goal of the course was to have students integrate knowledge and skills from previous courses including needs assessment, introduction to instructional design, and program…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Instructional Design, Program Evaluation, Needs Assessment
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Hastings, Nancy B.; Tracey, Monica W. – TechTrends Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2005
In 1983, Clark declared that instructional methods determine how effective a piece of instruction is and that media?s only influence is on cost and distribution. His argument (Clark, 1983) was that "media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers our groceries causes…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Media
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Bishop, MJ; Schuch, Dan; Spector, J. Michael; Tracey, Monica W. – TechTrends Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2005
According to the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance, and Instruction (ibstpi) new technologies and methods have made instructional design practice more complex and sophisticated today than it was in the early years of the field (Richey et al., 2001). The authors of the 2000 ibstpi instructional design standards claimed…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Design, Competition, Graduate Students