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.)

  1. A Culturally Diverse Audience & Instructional Design
  2. Motivation, Learner Motivation, and the ARCS Model
  3. Learning Objectives, Action Verbs, Instructional Design and Leonardo Da Vinci
  4. Krathwohl’s Taxonomy for the Affective Domain and the Inverted Pyramid
  5. John Sweller’s Cognitive Load Theory and its Application in Instructional Design
  6. The 7 plus or minus 2 Rule and The Chunking Principle
  7. Learn – Unlearn – Relearn! (Andragogy or Adult Learning)
  8. Fresh vs. Experienced or Novice vs. Expert?
  9. Smart AI, Dull Mind? Stay Sharp with Instructional Design
  10. The First Principles of Instruction by David Merrill & the IDCDT-AIM Course
  11. The Timeless Aura of Bloom’s Taxonomy
  12. Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning
Instructional Design principles list with links to posts explaining them.

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