Instructional Designer Competencies. The Standards, Fourth Edition 12+

📓 This book provides the most current and complete version of statements defining a competent instructionaldesigner, for those who are or aspire to practice in virtually any context, anywhere in the world. Theresearch conducted to update and validate these standards included obtaining feedback from over 1000senior to novice practitioners and scholars working in the North, South, and Central Americas, Europe,Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and African nations.This book is intended for those who hire, train, and prepare instructional designers and those who work (orplan to work) as instructional designers. It provides an updated description of the profession. It lays out themost critical competencies (e.g., knowledge, skills, and attitudes) of the successful instructional designer, regardless of the context in which they work(e.g., K-12, higher education, business and industry, government and military, private consultancy, informal or formal), the location in which theypractice (e.g., the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia), and the type of delivery for which they design (e.g., face-to-face, paper-based, digital,blended).There have always been questions about what instructional designers do... such questions led to the creation of ibstpi more than 30 years ago. Yet, thisquestioning is especially true today with the growing call for developers of e-learning and other technology-supported instruction. The term'instructional designer' seems to have become a generic p...