Instructional design operates at a finer grain than educational design. Where educational design asks what a programme is for, instructional design asks how a single module or learning experience teaches what it claims to teach.
Poios provides instructional designers with structured templates for ADDIE and SAM workflows, scaffolded learning sequences, multimedia integration plans, and embedded formative checkpoints. Every learning activity is connected to the outcome it serves and the assessment it prepares the learner for.
The platform also supports cognitive load analysis on draft modules, flagging sequences where extraneous load is likely to compromise learning, and surfacing opportunities to chunk, scaffold, or reorder content.
What this service provides
ADDIE and SAM
Full workflow support for both linear and iterative instructional design models.
Scaffolded sequencing
Learning activities ordered to build complexity progressively against the outcome.
Cognitive load analysis
Draft modules analysed for extraneous load and chunking opportunities.
Formative checkpoints
Embedded low-stakes assessment to verify learning before summative tasks.
Standards and frameworks
This service is engineered to satisfy specific Australian higher education regulatory and academic standards.
- HES Framework Standard 3.1
- Mayer principles of multimedia learning
- Sweller cognitive load theory
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