Jun
2016
instructional designers and tech adoption
Survey: Instructional Designers ‘Pivotal’ in Tech Adoption
By Dian Schaffhauser 05/09/16
Managing projects is the most common task instructional designers undertake during their days, followed by technology and pedagogical training. Their biggest obstacle to success on the job is faculty resistance. The most important expertise they possess as a whole is the ability to learn new technologies, followed by project management and learning science or theory. Their favorite tools to work with are Camtasia and Adobe products; their least-favorite are Blackboard and learning management systems in general.
- Consider adding more resources in the area of instructional design. If that isn’t possible, at least consider involving instructional designers “early” and “often” during technology transitions.”
- “Incentivize” faculty to work with instructional designers “from the get-go” in order to help them learn how to engage with their students and expand class time through the use of online tools.
- Technology providers should work closely with instructional designers in the selection of digital tools.
The report, “Instructional Design in Higher Education,” is freely available on the Intentional Futures website here.
Instructional Design in Higher Education
http://intentionalfutures.com/reports/instructional_design/
p. 4 Graph: median number of instructional designers by type of institution. According to the graph, SCSU must have between 3 and 16 instructional designers.
p. 10.“While a ‘jack-of-all-trades’ can get by in instructional design, the best instructional designers are ‘aces-of-many-trades’,with authentic experience and training in all aspects of the process.”
p. 12“Management choose[s] tools that are cheap and never ask[s] about integration or accessibility.Then we spend enormous amounts of time trying to get them to work.”
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more in this IMS blog on instructional design
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=instructional