Strategies in instructional materials development for African health professionals.

An international program in health professions training has involved the development of a teaching materials library by teams of African faculty authors and U.S. instructional materials specialists. Communications difficulties and differences in culture and technology have made it necessary that the instructional designers develop new production and management strategies, in order to meet program objectives and to assure the quality of the teaching materials. These strategies would seem to have continuing applications to domestic as well as international instructional development programs.