The paper reports an educational experiment on the e-Learning instructional design model based on Cognitive
Flexibility Theory, the experiment were made to explore the feasibility and effectiveness of the model in promoting
the learning quality in ill-structured domain. The study performed the experiment on two groups of students: one
group learned through the system designed by the model and the other learned by the traditional method. The results
of the experiment indicate that the e-Learning designed through the model is helpful to promote the intrinsic
motivation, learning quality in ill-structured domains, ability to resolve ill-structured problem and creative thinking
ability of the students