Workshop 1

Thursday May 7

9 am – 4:30 pm

Full Day Workshop

Title: Finding and Designing e3 (effective, efficient, engaging) Instruction.

Workshop Description:

The purpose of this workshop is to help participants apply First Principles of Instruction to the evaluation of existing instruction and to the design of new instructional products.

A careful review of instructional design theories, research and practice revealed a set of instructional principles almost universally accepted, articulated and prescribed for instructional design, and which are supported by research. When these first principles of instruction are appropriately implemented in a given instructional product the resulting learning is more effective, efficient and engaging than when these principles fail to be implemented. This workshop will introduce participants to a course evaluation rubric that will help them determine the extent to which these principles have been implemented in a given instructional product. The resulting evaluation provides an e3 score for the instruction and also provides specific prescriptive recommendations for improving the instruction.

The second half of this workshop introduces the Pebble-in-the-Pond model for instructional design. This instructional design approach facilitates the application of first principles of instruction in the design and development of an instructional product. The pebble approach results in problem-centered instruction that scores high on the e3 evaluation rubric and results in more effective, efficient and engaging learning.

Presenter: M. David Merrill

Emeritus professor Utah State University
Visiting professor Florida State University
Coordinator for the Development of Online Curriculum, Brigham Young University - Hawaii

M. David Merrill is professor emeritus at Utah State University. He is currently an instructional effectiveness consultant, a visiting professor at Florida State University and serving as a volunteer at Brigham Young University-Hawaii where he is coordinating the development of online curriculum. His FSU teaching and BYU-Hawaii coordination are all done at a distance online from his home in St. George Utah.

Since receiving his PhD from the University of Illinois in 1964 he has served on the faculty of George Peabody College, Brigham Young University-Provo, Stanford University, the University of Southern California and Utah State University. He is internationally recognized as a major contributor to the field of instructional technology, has published many books and articles in the field and has lectured internationally. Among his principle contributions: TICCIT Authoring System 1970's, Component Display Theory and Elaboration Theory 1980's, Instructional Transaction Theory, automated instructional design and ID based on Knowledge Objects 1990's, and currently First Principles of Instruction. He was honored to receive the AECT Life Time Achievement Award. He is the owner of the Ascape Tennsion & Sulphur Gulch Railroad. He and his wife Kate have a combined family of 9 children and 37 + 6 (by marriage) grandchildren which he claims as his most important accomplishment.