The purpose of this article is to identify the relationship between instructional design and corporate education, identify the new paradigm of education at the corner of the twenty-first century, and then find the implications for corporate education in terms of instructional design theories and models which are compatible with the new paradigm.
In this paper, first of all, instructional design was defined along with related terms and corporate education was discussed under the context of human resource activities. Then, the relationship between instructional design and corporate education was explained based on the previous discussion. In order to find the new paradigm of instructional design and corporate education in the age of information society we need to \"creatively\" destruct the old ideas or stereotypes on existing corporate education and training. Then, we could identify the Instructional Transaction Theory(ITT) or the second generation of instructional design theory(ID2) and Problem-Based Learning(PBL) and also R2D2 Model based on constructivism as the instructional design theories and models suitable to the new paradigm.
The implications of the ITT, PBL, and R2D2 were discussed for the purpose of implementing them in the Korean corporate education/training settings.
Educational practitioners should not completely reject and discard the old paradigm of corporate education and instructional technology, but incorporate most of the knowledge generated by previous instructional design theories because the knowledge should be restructured into substantially different configurations to meet the new needs. The professionals (including instructional designers/technologists) in the field of corporate education and human resource development need to build new vision and roles to meet the paradigm shift and environmental change.
Corporate education or human resource development program is to help create a proper fit mission and task between the company and the department; to be necessary for survival in the face of a reality that is changing more quickly than ever before; and to make training value-added by providing solutions to critical business issues.