ISD (Instructional System Design)
Instructional System Design (ISD) represents not a teaching method per se, but instead the means used to design courses. ISD is important not only for the courses that EBSTEM teaches directly to students, but also for custom courses that EBSTEM designs for companies.
As a veteran of the high technology and business worlds, Mark is familiar with both the benefits, and the pitfalls, of currently common methods such as Agile development. To add more structure to Agile, which is often a poorly defined ISD method, EBSTEM relies upon the Piskurich spiderweb model of ADDIE. This provides the flexibility required in rapid course development and modification, while also being reviewed extensively in scholarly literature, something that is lacking with Agile development techniques.
Mark’s paper on ADDIE and and how it applies to high technology training can be downloaded here.