Instructional Technology/Instructional Theory

The following authors have had profound influence on the field of instructional technology.

Robert Gagne

• Conditions of Learning
• Mastery Learning
• Learning Hierarchies
• Nine Events of Instruction
• Five Domains of Learning

M. David Merrill

• Teaching Concepts (with Tennyson)
• Component Display Theory
• Elaboration Theory for Content Sequencing (with Reigeluth)
• Instructional Transaction Theory for Instructional Strategies
• First Principles for Instruction
• Five Star Rating System for Instruction

Michael J. Spector

• Automated Instructional Design

Charles Reigeluth

• Elaboration Theory

David Jonassen

• Constructivist Learning Environments (CLEs)

Return to Bases of the Field.