Instructional Design Framework This section describes a
Framework for designing learning environments. It includes two
templates (Excel workbooks) that aids in the instructional
design. While the two spreadsheets are discussed at the end of
this article, you might want to download them now and look them
over as both further explain the concepts listed in this
article. This Learning or Instructional Design Framework is
built on three models: - Collins, Brown, and Newman's Cognitive
Apprenticeship - Bloom's Taxonomy - Instructional strategies for
presenting content as described by van Merriënboer Cognitive
Apprenticeship is defined as “learning-through-guided-experience
on cognitive and metacognitive, rather than physical, skills and
processes” (Collins, Brown, Newman, 1989, p. 456). It is
composed of four main concepts: Methods, Sequencing, Sociology,
and Content (or knowledge). Each of the four concepts have
several parts within them as shown in this model: While the
authors acknowledge that other forms of le