Instructional designers' conceptualisations of learning objects

Instructional designers' conceptualisations of learning objects

The purpose of the study reported on in this paper was to gain insight into how instructional designers conceptualise learning objects (LOs) and their attributes. It aimed to identify the range and types of conceptualisations of LO attributes held by a group of designers. Data were collected during two phases of semi-structured phone interviews with 10 instructional designers working in Canadia...

The Civic-Minded Instructional Designers (CMID) framework: Educating instructional designers with community-based service-learning approaches

This dissertation examines the issue of academic preparation of future professional instructional designers in the context of higher academic institutions. It is presented in nontraditional dissertation format as approved by the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Iowa State University. The dissertation is comprised of three publishable journal articles that would represent Chapters 2, 3 ...

E-Learning Instructional Approach with Learning Objects

This paper presents a novel e-learning instructional model and its application to teaching a Java language programming course for information technology specialists working for the Spanish public administration. This is a general-purpose instructional model, based on the concept of learning objective and composed of learning objects. Additionally, a blended approach to the learning process in w...

Meta-Simulating. Designing E-Learning Simulations For Instructional Designers

Today e-learning increasingly requires, even at an International level, highly competent professionals of learning design. For this reason, the role of traditional academic institutions becomes fundamental in conveying those abilities, knowledge and skills which can be immediately put to use in an e-learning working context. This request of instructional designer training is responded by the in...

Submission : Different Levels of Information Systems Designers ’ Conceptualisations of Users