What Is ISD?
Instructional Systems Development, or ISD as we will refer to it, is a systems approach to analyzing, designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating any instructional experience. It may also be called Instructional Development (ID), Curriculum Development (CD), Instructional System for Training (IST), or a variety of other acronyms. The differences between the many systems are usually modest in scope and tend to be linked to terminology and procedural issues.
Regardless of what you call them, each of these systems operates on certain basic principles. If you are a “systems” thinker you already know that systems are present in every facet of our lives. We elect our representatives in the political system and we prosecute them ...
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