What are the most important considerations when choosing a particular instructional strategy?

1. learning objectives - For example, if my learning objectives focus on learning a procedure, I would not choose Problem-solving instructional strategy. If learning objectives state learners are to learn skill to make something, I'm going to use something like Shank's Learning by Doing theory. As part of this, learning objectives need to be able to be categorized in a learning taxonomy like from Tripartite (Hilgard 1980), Gagne (1985), Bloom (1956), Anderson (1981), Merrill (1983), Reigeluth & Moore (1999), etc.

Is it important for students to drive the speed of the course, are experience necessary for the experience, are teacher-directed methods appropriate?

2. desired/prescribed learning environment - setting, use of simulation, importance of hands on experience, configurations
3. available resources - time, personnel; if there is limited time, consider applying teacher-directed strategies
4. learners/target audience - do learner characteristics really change the instructional strategy? 2c argues no. It might affect the delivery mode, though. Checklists are most appropriate for procedures with one answer. Higher order thinking with multiple correct answers are best to use with assessment rubrics. Novice versus expert - novices might need a more structured learning strategy where they have lots of scaffolding and have it slowly taken away.