Lesson 4: Developing an Instructional Strategy

An instructional strategy is an overall plan describing the information and activities you will present to your learners to help them achieve your instructional goal. Note that it is more than an outline of what you will present to your learners. You will use the information from the planning stage, your goal statement, and learning objectives to create the instructional strategy. When finished, you will have a plan to guide the development of your webinar presentation that includes a set of learning components to achieve the learning outcomes.

Without an instructional strategy, your chances of developing effective instruction are slim. It is like the image shown above of someone throwing darts while blindfolded. They may hit the target, but most likely not the bulls-eye, and many of the darts will miss entirely. You don't want to do this with your instruction.