These 12 elements should receive attention in a comprehensive instructional design plan:

Assess learning needs for designing an instructional program; state goals, constraints and priorities that must be recognized.

• 1. Select topics or job tasks to be treated and indicate general purposes to be served.

2. Examine characteristics of learners or trainees which should receive attention during planning.

3. Identify subject content and analyze task components relating to stated goals and purposes.

4. State learning objectives to be accomplished in terms of subject content and task components.

5. Design teaching/learning activities to accomplish the stated objectives.

6. Select resources to support instructional activities.

7. Specify support services required for developing and implementing activities and acquiring or producing materials.

8. Prepare to evaluate learning and outcomes of the program.

9. Determine preparation of learners or trainees to study the topic by pretesting them.

10. Formative/summative evaluation

11. Revision

12. Learning needs/goals/priority/constraints

The diagram shown below can illustrate the elements of this instructional design plan:

Documents provided by the Western Illinois Education Consortium.