The model on the previous page is more complicated than the one we saw on the first page of this book. However, it doesn't really illustrate the complexities introduced when creating instructional products with tools and techniques that have their own development models.
For example, web design and development follows similar phases or tasks. Web D2 analyzes the requirements, designs the structures, develops the code and systems, implements the technology, tests, and improves what has been created. How do you integrate instructional development with technology development? Sequentially or simultaniously? Will one impact the other? The answers to these questions are project dependent.
Another example considers an instructional product that includes multiple delivery products that work in conjunction with each other. The development of each delivery method having its own development phases or model. Now you might be integrating three or more models into the project management plan.
Instructional delivery options might include:
Some instructional materials can be put on the web with more ease today than in the past. However, to create all the materials often found in a learning experience, one needs more skills, technology resources, time, and budget.
For example, web-based learning experiences often include one or more of the following:
Producing classroom materials might include the student guide or reading materials, handouts, activities, exams, reports, and presentations. Of course, you might say that each of these can be done on the web and you would be correct. However, the skill levels and resouces required to create these materials are more easily obtained than those required to put the same materials on the web.
For example, now-a-days, knowledge and skills used to operate office applications such a Word and PowerPoint are very common. It is almost understood that anyone with basic computer skills can type a document. This is not always the case with delivery options on the web or via video.
Audio/visual materials in a learning environment is another way to describe videos and animations, each having their own models of development.
The end result for each varies. They can end up on the web or they can be presented via a monitor or projection device. The skills and resources required to create such materials exceeds basic office application tools skills.