Spread the loveSAM (Successive Approximation Strategy) is an adaptive design and a delivery model that meets the urgent requirement for practical training collateral. SAM stands for Rapid Design and Development Model. The cognitivism-based notion of Instructional Systems Design (ISD) has been around since the 1950s and was first conceived as a technique to systemically arrange instructional material. Before ISD, education was largely “piecemeal” and based on behaviorist learning theory. At its essence, behaviorism is more concerned with the output of performance and far less concerned with the cognitive abilities that improve learning and retention of new information. Because of the … Continue reading Instructional Design With SAM