Trends in research on automating instructional design tools(<Special Issue>Higher Education Reform and Media)

Abstract

This article is a review of research trends in the automating instructional design tools for supporting activities of instructional design, especially focusing on existing reviews of them. The original framework was developed from twelve items with reference to previous research and applied to five examples. The considerations for tools and examples are as follows: (1) support for the application of the instructional design theories, (2) support for learning instructional design theories, (3) standardization and reuse, (4) future prospects.