User:George.joeckel/OAR model

Objectives-Resources-Activities (OAR) model is an instructional design model created for a specific context: distance education courses delivered through a learning management system (LMS) in higher education. The OAR model was developed to meet four criteria:

• maintain a strict focus on the learning system context in higher education
• create a simple graphic-based aid which facilitates communication among design stakeholders
• remain inclusive by avoiding the use of jargon
• represent the basic order of operations in the development process for an online course

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Context Specific

Edmunds, Branch & Mukherjee (1994) demonstrated the importance of context-specific Instructional Design when they stated:

    Concepts, theories and models have an ecology, a context within which they
    function. Importing a theory or model from a significantly different context,
    without attention to contextual differences, violates this ecology, and
    subsequently results in inefficient solutions to instructional problems (p. 66-67).

Tessmer & Richey (1997) described the context of a learning system as “those situational elements that affect both the acquisition and application of newly acquired knowledge, skills, or attitudes (p.87).” They identify the social, physical, and political elements which combine to create “a multilevel body of factors in which learning and performance are embedded (p. 87).”

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