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Delivery System

Selection

Situation: Having summarized the content for the
modules, you are ready to decide how the instruction
will be made available (delivered) to the students.

Now we arrive at what is probably the easiest part of instruc-
tional development, that of deciding what combination of
things we will use to present the instruction and practice to the
student. Though there is a priesthood that advocates charts and
diagrams and that would have you believe this is a complicated
affair, it isn’t, for two main reasons. The first one is that you
won’t have so many choices available to you that you need a
chart to help you decide which to use. Bluntly, if you only have
two pairs of socks, it isn’t hard to decide which to wear. The
second reason is that by the time you have listed the things
(materials, media, equipment) you need in order to provide
practice and feedback, you’ll seldom need anything more.

Why Delivery Systems?
So let’s think a little about delivery system selection. First
off, instructional technologists talk about delivery system
selection rather than about media selection. That may seem as