Design based research to create instructional design templates

One such educational research problem is the process of creating learning objects (LOs). Learning objects (LOs) have become valuable teaching and learning tools in a variety of instructional contexts (Bratina, 2002, Boyle, 2003, Wang, 2008). Creation of LOs involves multiple interactions between stakeholders from various domains such as the subject matter, instructional design, visual communication and software development (Weerasinghe, 2007). During the LO creation process, templates are used to generate products such as Instructional design document, storyboard and animation design document, which facilitate the interaction between the stakeholders. To make the process more efficient, the templates need to be iteratively refined and tested. The research method chosen to address this problem should facilitate the observation of the interactions between multiple stakeholders and the iterative testing of the products.