This book includes many new, enhanced features and content. Overall, the text integrates two success stories of practicing instructional designers with a focus on the process of instructional design.

Explores how schools and districts can leverage the Understanding by Design model's principles and strategies to improve student achievement, staff performance, and organizational productivity.

The authors of Understanding by Design share a compelling strategy for creating schools that truly fulfill the central mission of education: to help students become "thoughtful, productive, and accomplished at worthy tasks."

Each chapter highlights key concepts and provides additional exercises and assignments based on the work of Benjamin Bloom. Streamlined ID is an ideal reference guide for optimizing professional practice.

A major audience for this book is the instructional designer or a person interested in fulfilling that role. The contents guide an individual or a planning team who are designing an instructional unit or a complete instructional program.

This two-volume encyclopedia presents over 200 entries that highlight the ways in which educational and communication practices shape our uses of technology.