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Expert System Shells: Tools To Aid Human Performance, Jack Welsh, Brent Wilson
Expert System Shells: Tools To Aid Human Performance, Jack Welsh, Brent Wilson
Brent Wilson
Examines expert system shells and the role a microcomputer-based expert system can play as an intelligent job aid. Characteristics of traditional and automated job aids techniques are described, and the role of instructional designers in developing expert systems within organizations is discussed.
Computers And Instructional Design: Component Display Theory In Transition, Brent Wilson
Computers And Instructional Design: Component Display Theory In Transition, Brent Wilson
Brent Wilson
Component display theory (CDT) is used as a working example in this examination of the relationship between instructional design theory and computer assisted instruction (CAI) models. Two basic approaches to instructional design--the analytic and the holistic methods--are reviewed, and four elements of CDT are described: (1) content types, including facts, concepts, procedures, and principles; (2) the performance outcomes of use and remember; (3) primary presentation forms, i.e., basic presentations of definitions, examples, and practice cases; and (4) secondary presentation forms such as "help" displays, elaboration, analogies, and advance organizers. Some of the rules and procedures tying these elements together are …