CHANGES IN ADULT INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN PARADIGM
CHANGES IN ADULT INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN PARADIGM

Summary/Abstract: Instructional design/ designing training activities for adults it is an activity that requires the anticipation of the steps that will be covered in the training process. The analysis of the main instructional design models highlights changes in training activities design paradigm, special for the adults, through changing from product-centered design models, to process-centered models and mixed models. Based on this categorization, this paper, in fact, covers the most common instructional models of design used in adult education. It, also, could be consider an answer for the imperious need which demands to develop a specific instructional design model for "blended learning” in the light of the new perspectives and challenges that Information and Communication Technologies bring. The term “blended learning” is used to describe a solution that combines several different delivery methods or the learning that mixes various forms of organizing activities such as face-to-face classrooms, elearning, and self-paced learning.

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