The Design and Development of Individualized Curriculum Materials for Higher Education
This paper describes a self-instructional curriculum design and development course, based on a process model for individualizing instruction, suited to the complex subject matter of higher education. The course is designed to train educational research and development personnel, teachers, administrators, and industrial training specialists in the design of instructional materials. Features of the model which make it appropriate for higher education are its emphasis on the structure of the discipline, sampling of high level intellectual skills, procedures for systematic application of research-based instructional strategies to instructional design, and incorporation of independent inquiry into a structured model.