Instructional Design

The two instructional design models I will compare and contrast are the ASSURE model and the 4C/ID model. ASSURE incorporates Robert’s Gagne’s event of instruction. The six main components of ASSURE are Analyze learners (identifying general characteristics, entry competencies, and learning styles of your target audience), State objectives (learning outcomes), Select instructional methods, media, and materials, Utilize media and materials, Require learner participation (active learning), and Evaluate and revise. 4C/ID means four components of instructional design. They are Learning Tasks, Supportive Information, Procedural Information and Part-Task Practice.
The two models are similar because they are instructional design models. Both are used for teachers teaching skills, but actually are very different in their approach. ASSURE focuses on bettering your lesson plans, improving teaching using media and student participation and evaluating your lesson and outcomes. 4C/ID focuses on teaching complex skills to solve real problems. Instead of using context or presentations involving media, 4C/!D is based upon performance of task specific skills to acquire learning. Also ASSURE uses prior knowledge assessments as information the student already possess and 4C/ID incorporates just-in-time information to assist in the performance required.
In designing the Basic Nutrition course for Nurses I will teach in the fall, I will use the ASSURE model. It makes sense with the type of course I teach. My learners are students who have applied to the nursing program in at associated degree college and are either taking in or right before their first semester in nursing. They are a motivated group of learners ranging in age from 19 to 60. They are 90% women and have all completed prerequisites in anatomy and physiology. My objective is to facilitate learning about how nutrition and the foods we eat do affect our bodies and health. Poor nutrition leads to health disease and illness. Students will review their own diets in order to understand their future patient’s diets better. I will incorporate power points, lecture, games, video, images, discussion, and a diet project in my instructional design.