[...]... both the individuals themselves and their organizations The main thesis of this book, then, is that instructional engineering, particularly in a e-learning context, must be based on knowledge engineering and that graphic models of the processes involved in translating information to Introduction xxvii knowledge are an essential tool for instructional engineering This book will open your thinking to new... and thousands of courses are now available via the Internet This book describes new techniques for designing e-learning and for building knowledge from remote information sources I call the methodology that manages all these techniques instructional engineering The Value of Instructional Engineering Instructional engineering is a means for going beyond information management to knowledge management It... Eight present practical instructional engineering case studies These applications of instructional engineering involving MISA and the virtual learning center concept were carried out between 1999 and 2001 in three distance training contexts: a university course, the continuing xxviii Introduction education of members of three corporations of professionals, and a training session in a corporation The final... 40 Integrating a Learning Event into a Virtual Center 45 Versatile and Flexible Architecture 49 Summary 53 Chapter 3: Foundations of Instructional Engineering 55 Systemic Methods 56 Instructional Systems Design 60 Software Engineering 62 Knowledge Engineering 66 A Knowledge Representation System 69 Skills and Competencies 86 Summary 100 Chapter 4: MISA: An Instructional Engineering Method 103 Overview... machine In a like manner, teachers of instructional technology will eventually abandon the role of training instructional designers to use instructional applications and turn their attention to the underlying principles of instruction They will begin to focus on how these underlying principles affect instruction and how they should affect learning They will began to develop tools, not just for making... turning that information into knowledge, we need to ask how long traditional training and educational models can continue to prevail To answer that question, this chapter discusses the developing knowledge society and the rapid increase of Internet technologies and considers the impact of these changes on training needs It then presents an overview of 1 2 Instructional Engineering in Networked Environments. .. human learning Learning is the process by which information, scattered or structured in various domains, becomes knowledge and skills, integrated into the intellect of an individual and allowing him or her to acquire and use new competencies In e-learning and network distributed learning an individual builds knowledge from remote information sources And this method of learning raises multiple instructional, ... colleagues and I have offered to the kinds of concerns expressed by Gustafson has been to develop the methodology presented here as an example of instructional engineering and its potential I am convinced that e-learning and its engineering are the future of education I also believe that knowledge modeling is the future of instructional engineering I hope the reader will gain from this book, regardless of... center allows e-learning designers to integrate e-learning roles, operations, and resources This chapter suggests the dimensions of the role of the instructional engineer Chapter Three presents the bases of instructional engineering, which I locate at the crossroads of scientific instructional design, software engineering, and knowledge engineering It also introduces an approach to knowledge representation... e-learning to illustrate the diversity among the approaches, and I present the processes and tools used to build an e-learning environment, emphasizing the challenges offered by the interoperability of learning objects Chapter Two discusses virtual learning centers and the main instructional engineering questions that occur in such environments A virtual learning center allows e-learning designers to integrate . virtual learning center and the instructional engineering ques- tions that occur in this environment. Chapter Three discusses the foundations of instructional engineering in scientific instructional. appears in print may not be available in electronic books. ISBN: 0-7879-6466-2 Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Paquette, Gilbert 1942- Instructional engineering in networked environments. 49 Summary 53 Chapter 3: Foundations of Instructional Engineering 55 Systemic Methods 56 Instructional Systems Design 60 Software Engineering 62 Knowledge Engineering 66 A Knowledge Representation