Analysing the Instructional Setting: A Guide for Course Designers

by Martin Tessmer, Duncan Harris

The purpose of this book is to provide readers with the methodology to conduct an environmental analysis -- covering factors such as the physical setting, learner and teacher roles and the organizational climate - and use its findings to promote successful instruction. The authors cover the concept of environmental analysis; environmental factors that influence learning; how to conduct an environmental analysis; and influencing the learner and support environments through effective design.

180 pages, ebook

First published March 1, 1992

About the author

Martin Tessmer spent thirty-five years as a design and training expert for universities and the military. In the late 1990s, he went on hiatus from the academic world to work as an outdoor writer, publishing several wilderness books and writing for numerous outdoor magazines.

Martin returned to academia in 2000, heading up an online training development center for the University of Colorado system. He retired in 2010, and went on to work with the U.S. Navy on designing fighter pilot training programs. He is now semi-retired, devoting himself to historical novels. His recent research on the Punic Wars has taken him to London, Rome, Ostia, and Barcelona.

In addition to his six-book Scipio Africanus series, Martin has just released The Noble Brute, the first historical novel about Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus.