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Acronyms and Glossary

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Interservice Procedures for Instructional Systems Development :
Acronyms and Glossary (continued)
by Robert K. Branson, Gail T. Rayner and J. Lamarr Cox

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MEDIA: Means for presenting instructional material to learners; for example, books, audio tapes, and film strips. •

MEDIA ALTERNATIVE: A form of instructional material that contains the stimulus criteria required by a specific learning activity.

MEDIA MIX: Combination of different media used to present a unit of instruction.

MEDIA POOL: All of the media options suitable for a given unit of instruction. The final media choice is drawn from the media pool.

MEDIA SELECTION: Is the major means of determining how instruction is to be packaged and presented to the student.

MENTAL SET: A preparatory mental adjustment, or readiness, for a particular type of experience.

MENTAL SKILLS: Those processes of identifying, classifying, using rules, and solving problems that involve active mental processing. Mental skills imply the capability of applying the learning to some situation and demonstrating the mental skill, such as thinking, creating, and analyzing.

MNEMONICS: Methods which make information easier to remember; memory aids.

MODE OF INSTRUCTION: Method of scheduling materials presentation. The instructional mode may be individualized (self-pacing) or group (block scheduling).

MODULE: An individualized self-instructional package usually containing all the necessary materials a learner needs to meet some or part of a terminal learning objective.

MULTIMEDIA PACKAGE: Self-contained instructional unit in more than one medium.

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