The Systems Approach and Public Education
Evidence is accumulating that the use of instructional design results in more effective and efficient instruction. However, instructional designers have not found a direct role to play in public education. Rarely are they employed by publishing companies that prepare the textbooks or by the public schools that use the texts within an overall curriculum plan. The positive results of using a systematic design process are such that publishers should add instructional designers to work with teachers on curriculum development projects and to provide inservice training to teachers.E
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