Chapter 1: What is this instructional design stuff anyway? Why instructional design? What is instructional design? A few definitions Advantages of instructional design Disadvantages of instructional design Chapter 2: Before you do anything: pre-instructional design activities Organizational needs Performance assessment Assessing training needs Choosing needs to address The needs analysis report Quick and dirty cost/Benefit analysis Chapter 3: Do you know what you need to do?Analysis Data-collection methods Why analyze? Types of analysis Computer-aided analysis Chapter 4: How to do it: design Make the right decision now Delivery decision (training settin) Objectives Design documents Course descriptions Gathering content Adding structure: the instructional plan Trainee evaluation(test questions and tests) Hints for designing in various formats Chapter 5: Doing it right: development End products of development The lesson plan as an product Participant's packages and other print materials Other media Hints for developing material Chapter 6: Getting it where iit does the most good: implementation Beta tests and pilots Reviews revisited Common implementation issues Hints for implementation Chapter 7: Did it do any good?Evaluation Why evaluation? The key to good evaluation Types of evaluation Evaluation of self-instructional programs Revisions: what to do with what you've learned Hints for evaluating Chapter 8: Doing it faster: more rapid design shortcuts Software for instructional design Authoring systems Conversion software Analysis software Miscellaneous software Rapid prototyping Learning objects/Granular training Public courses Off-the-shelf programs Technology vendors Performance support based "training" Problem-based learning(PBL) Training management systems Miscellaneous