You don't need to be a proficient computer user to benefit from this tutorial, either. You will learn instructional design principles and how to use them to integrate technology into your teaching. That is, you will learn to determine precisely what you need to accomplish and to make an efficient and effective plan to do it. You won't learn specific technical skills like animating text in PowerPoint or creating a link to another web page. If you came for those skills, don't leave just yet, we may have something just as good to offer you.
Instructional design is a systematic method of designing and developing instruction.
From need and goal determination to content development, it's a cohesive process with intrinsically interrelated steps that build upon each other. The end result will be a better lesson. Though you won't have time to conduct a formal analysis for everything you want to teach, the concepts will give you a valuable framework to guide you more effectively through all technology integration, content development, and delivery. We hope that the principles you learn here will become second nature to use everyday. There are five lessons in the tutorial, each covering a sequential phase of instructional design.