摘要：The article reports on the development and evaluation of the Internet-based systematic instructional design assistance that is intended for the development of print-based self-learning materials. The system consists of three main elements namely, the instructional design principle, subject contents and collaboration among members of the course development team. The combination of these elements facilitates the collaborative social workspace for the collective use of the subject matter by experts, instructional designers, graphic artists, editors and administrators to effectively develop the self-learning materials. The evaluation of the system was based on the structured interview of the participants who had played his/her role in the development of the self-learning materials. The overall comment from the participants was positive as the system was able to reduce the turnaround time in the development of such learning materials, and the system allowed for the production of the learning materials which conformed to the instructional design principles. However, there were some shortcomings in the system. The support for the instructional design principle was not specific to a particular subject matter. The workspace within a specific template was also found to be restrictive and it hindered the overall flow of the development of the self-learning materials. The various issues and challenges elucidated from this evaluation are discussed in the paper.t
