PACMAN: An Instructional Guide for Web Development

Lieutenant Colonel Andre Greenberry is the Commanding Officer of the Training Technology Centre's Flexible Delivery Development Wing. andre.greenberry@defence.gov.au

Keywords

Instructional design, web development, elearning, e-learning, electronic learning, flexible delivery, online education, content delivery

Abstract

Put four instructional designers in a room and you will get five concepts for designing a learning package for the web! Who is right and who is wrong? Time is precious, so rather than be embroiled in lengthy debates over the merits of each approach, some form of a guide is required. This paper recognises the paramount importance of instructional design and the need to rapidly develop consistently sound web based products in a short period of time. As a means of speeding development whilst maintaining instructional design integrity and consistency, this paper presents a checklist for your consideration. The checklist represents the distillation of many years of research, evaluation, validation and experience. It is, primarily, a tool for the inexperienced and uninitiated so as to enforce instructional design rigour in the development of web based materials.