Work models: Beyond instructional objectives

✍ Scribed by C. V. Bunderson; A. S. Gibbons; J. B. Olsen; G. P. Kearsley

• Book ID: 104638264
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 808 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-4277
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00139798

✦ Synopsis

While instructional objectives have provided a cornerstone for the practice and science of instruction, they have also locked us into a lexically based conceptual system. In order to realize the interactive potential of computer-based instructional systems, we need a new way of representing performance. This paper presents the concept of a work model which is a unit of practice which allows replication of both information and interaction. In addition, the work model idea also addresses some of the fundamental problems with objectives such as their inability to capture the richness of terminal behavior or how to relate objectives to content.