{"id":401,"date":"2025-10-11T23:46:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/?p=401"},"modified":"2025-10-13T04:57:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T04:57:35","slug":"some-important-instructional-design-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/2025\/10\/11\/some-important-instructional-design-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Important Instructional Design Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s a collection of more than a dozen posts on popular Instructional Design Principles. (Bookmark the page or follow the Ignite blog to return to this list in future.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol style=\"background:linear-gradient(135deg,rgba(247,238,129,0.27) 0%,rgba(207,202,114,0.38) 100%)\" class=\"wp-block-list has-background\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/instructionaldesignjunction.com\/2022\/07\/13\/instructional-design-methods-to-address-a-culturally-diverse-audience\/\">A Culturally Diverse Audience &amp; Instructional Design<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/instructionaldesignjunction.com\/2022\/04\/18\/motivation-learner-training-arcs-model-john-keller-id-concepts\/\">Motivation, Learner Motivation, and the ARCS Model<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/instructionaldesignjunction.com\/2022\/04\/18\/jean-piaget-genetic-epistemology-constructivism-and-instructional-design\/\">Jean Piaget \u2013 Genetic Epistemology, Constructivism, and Instructional Design<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/instructionaldesignjunction.com\/2021\/11\/09\/self-learning-objectives-action-verbs-instructional-design-leonardo-da-vinci\/\">Learning Objectives, Action Verbs, Instructional Design and Leonardo Da Vinci<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/instructionaldesignjunction.com\/2021\/10\/26\/krathwohls-taxonomy-for-the-affective-domain-and-the-inverted-pyramid\/\">Krathwohl\u2019s Taxonomy for the Affective Domain and the Inverted Pyramid<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/instructionaldesignjunction.com\/2021\/08\/23\/john-swellers-cognitive-load-theory-and-its-application-in-instructional-design\/\">John Sweller\u2019s Cognitive Load Theory and its Application in Instructional Design<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/instructionaldesignjunction.com\/2021\/08\/23\/george-a-millers-7-plus-or-minus-2-rule-and-simon-and-chases-chunking-principle\/\">The 7 plus or minus 2 Rule and The Chunking Principle<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/instructionaldesignjunction.com\/2021\/08\/11\/blooms-taxonomy-vs-revised-blooms-taxonomy-differences-and-which-is-better\/\">Bloom\u2019s Taxonomy vs. Revised Bloom\u2019s Taxonomy \u2013 Does it Matter?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/instructionaldesignjunction.com\/2021\/08\/07\/how-adult-learners-learn-self-doubt-vulnerability-challenges-instructional-design\/\">Learn \u2013 Unlearn \u2013 Relearn! The Adult Learner Way<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/instructionaldesignjunction.com\/2021\/08\/07\/fresh-vs-experienced-novice-vs-expert-learners-instructional-design-blooms-taxonomy\/\">Fresh vs. Experienced or Novice vs. Expert?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/2025\/08\/22\/smart-ai-dull-mind-stay-sharp-with-instructional-design\/\">Smart AI, Dull Mind? Stay Sharp with Instructional Design<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/2025\/10\/03\/the-first-principles-of-instruction-by-david-merrill-the-idcdt-aim-course\/\">The First Principles of Instruction by David Merrill &amp; the IDCDT-AIM Course<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/2025\/10\/04\/blooms-taxonomy-revised-application-to-ai-generated-learning-objectives\/\">The Timeless Aura of Bloom\u2019s Taxonomy<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/2025\/10\/06\/hemlines-lipsticks-lingerie-audience-analysis-and-instructiona-design\/\">Hemlines, Lipsticks, Lingerie, and Instructional Design<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a fun hike across these fourteen destinations.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/instructional-designer-and-ID-principles-by-Gemini.jpg\" alt=\"A young instructional designer is ready to learn instructional design principles and use them in content creation.\" class=\"wp-image-402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/instructional-designer-and-ID-principles-by-Gemini.jpg 600w, https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/instructional-designer-and-ID-principles-by-Gemini-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/instructional-designer-and-ID-principles-by-Gemini-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen links that discuss several key instructional design concepts such as Bloom&#8217;s and Krathwohl&#8217;s Taxonomies, Merrill&#8217;s First Principles, John Sweller&#8217;s Cognitive Load theory, Miller&#8217; rule, the ARCS model, constructivism,  novice vs, expert, learning objectives, action verbs, audience analysis, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[75,3,39],"tags":[104,128,108,79,133,136,134],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cognitive-psychology","category-instructional-design-id","category-the-future-instructional-designer","tag-arcs-model","tag-audience-analysis","tag-blooms-taxonomy","tag-cognitive-load-theory","tag-instructional-design-principles","tag-learning-objectives","tag-merrills-first-principles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/instructional-designer-and-ID-principles-by-Gemini.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}