My "Top 10" Reading List in IDT

Recently in class we looked at several scholars' lists of of "top 10" books in instructional design and technology. In the spirit of those lists, here are my top 10 books that every professional in our field should read, in no particular order:

  1. Jonassen, D.H. (Ed.). (2003). Handbook of research on educational communications and technology: A project of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. New York, NY: MacMillan.
  2. Gagne, R., Briggs, L. & Wager, W. (1992). Principles of instructional design (4th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
  3. Charles M. Reigeluth (ed) (1999) Instructional-Design Theories and Models: A New Paradigm of Instructional Theory, volume II. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  4. Stolovitch, H.D. & Keeps, E.J. (Eds). (1999). Handbook of Human Performance Technology: Improving individual and organizational performance worldwide. 2nd Edition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer.
  5. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L. & Cocking, R. R. (1999). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
  6. Wilson, B.G. (1996). Constructivist learning environments: Case studies in instructional design. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.
  7. Ertmer, Peggy A., & Quinn, James (1999) (Eds.). The ID casebook: Case studies in instructional design. Upper Saddle River NJ: Merrill.
  8. Dills, Charles R., & Romiszowski, Alexander J. (Eds.). Instructional development paradigms. Englewood Cliffs NJ: Educational Technology Publications
  9. Driscoll, Marcy P. (2000). Psychology of learning for instruction (2nd ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
  10. Rossett, Allison (1999). First things fast : A handbook for performance analysis. San Diego and Amsterdam: Pfeiffer.