Here’s a collection of more than a dozen posts on popular Instructional Design Principles. (Bookmark the page or follow the Ignite blog to return to this list in future.)
- A Culturally Diverse Audience & Instructional Design
- Motivation, Learner Motivation, and the ARCS Model
- Learning Objectives, Action Verbs, Instructional Design and Leonardo Da Vinci
- Krathwohl’s Taxonomy for the Affective Domain and the Inverted Pyramid
- John Sweller’s Cognitive Load Theory and its Application in Instructional Design
- The 7 plus or minus 2 Rule and The Chunking Principle
- Learn – Unlearn – Relearn! (Andragogy or Adult Learning)
- Fresh vs. Experienced or Novice vs. Expert?
- Smart AI, Dull Mind? Stay Sharp with Instructional Design
- The First Principles of Instruction by David Merrill & the IDCDT-AIM Course
- The Timeless Aura of Bloom’s Taxonomy
- Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning

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