'Spiral curriculum' may be a term that you haven't heard before, but you certainly have learned from such a curriculum in your own student life. This lesson will provide a definition of spiral curriculum as well as some examples of the educational tool in action.
An Instructional Designer should conduct a needs research and analyze the needs of the targeted group. They have to determine whether these needs can be fulfilled by learning; and exactly how. They write they learning objectives and conduct research to see what the outcomes are.
Sara McNeil defines the Instructional design from four different perspectives: 1  Instructional Design as a Process: Instructional Design is the systematic development of instructional specifications using learning and instructional theory to ensure the quality of instruction.