an online instructional design studio

An Online An Online Instructional Design Instructional Design StudioStudioAlbert L. Ingram, Ph.D.Jason Piatt

Kent State University

TEACHING TEACHING INSTRUCTIONAL INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNDESIGN

Depends on approach to Depends on approach to IDIDAlgorithmic ProcessDesign Discipline

◦Solving problems

How to teach design?How to teach design?Other fields

◦Design Studios (Architecture) Design Studios in ID

◦University of Georgia

TEACHING ID WITH TEACHING ID WITH AN ONLINE STUDIOAN ONLINE STUDIO

Characteristics of a studioCharacteristics of a studioGroup work/Individual WorkFull class for background,

assignments, examples and critiques

Highly collaborative

Characteristics, cont.Characteristics, cont.Communication among students

and between students and instructor is vital

Present assignments/products and get critiqued (by instructor and other students)

Learning by Walking Around (Chip do you have a ref for this?)

Implementing an Online Implementing an Online StudioStudioImplementing an online ID studio

◦Processes Group work Teamwork Collaboration

Proposed technology Proposed technology characteristicscharacteristicsStrong Sense of Presence (ref needed-presence, Swan, etc.)

Asynchronous and SynchronousEasy communications via

multiple channels, if possible◦Synch and asynch◦Text, Audio, Video?

Variety of tools to create and display products

Proposed technology Proposed technology characteristicscharacteristicsView and edit projects while

communicatingEasy file systemEasy to divide into groups AND

come together as a classTracking Capability

WHERE WE STAND WHERE WE STAND NOWNOW

Future ResearchFuture ResearchModifying the car while driving itMoving to group, from individual,

projectsProviding hybrid workspaces with

various toolsResearch on collaborative

processesResearch on critique process

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