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To teach effectively, design intentionally

by James Marshall, Ph.D., LMFT, Associate Professor of Family Life, University of Arkansas, and H. Wallace Goddard, Ph.D., CFLE, Professor of Family Life, University of Arkansas

... the best instruction balances four different elements of oral or written instruction, according to David Merrill, who has developed a system of instructional design called Component Display Theory (CDT)

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