Book Review: Instructional Design Theories and Models -A New Paradigm of Instructional Theory-

Instructional Design Theories and Models: A New Paradigm of Instructional Design Theory (Volume II) is edited by Charles M. Reigeluth of Indiana University (USA) and published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (located in Mahwah, New Jersey) in 1999 with an ISBN 0-8058-2859-1. The book is totally 715 pages. This book is organized into five units. The first two introductory units provide a framework for understanding the following three units that provide a deep understanding going into details of a variety of instructional theories and models. Following three units present instructional design theories in respect to the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective development areas. Various topics all along the book stay focused to the idea of systems approach to learning. The book describes a number of instructional theories and models providing details on when and how to use each. Stated differently, it tries to enlighten the path that leads to the answer of question “how to help people learn better.” The book provides a collection of sound information on the instructional design theory both for practitioners and researchers underlying well known as well as under-development theories/approaches in the field. It also shows the interrelationships among these diverse theories and highlights current issues along with trends in instructional design field.