This document provides a summary of a preliminary study and research protocol to investigate sociocultural issues in instructional design from a global perspective. The study involved a symposium held in Singapore with instructional design professionals and scholars from 10 countries. The goals were to identify a core group to participate in the research, explore the notion of different instructional design cultures, and develop a research protocol. The symposium helped gather baseline data on how instructional design is conducted in different regions and laid the groundwork for a larger international study on how sociocultural factors influence the practices of instructional designers.
This summary provides an overview of a study that examined incorporating collaborative and visual learning methods into a first-year visual communication design theory course. The study found that these alternative teaching methods helped engage students in learning theory in a deeper, more meaningful way compared to traditional lecture-based methods. Specifically, the study had students collaborate with peers on assignments, develop "visual arguments" to present their research, and present their work orally to audiences, mirroring common studio practices. These methods drew on students' visual skills and collaborative abilities to enhance their learning of theoretical concepts.
The unit uses a process model curriculum and constructivist learning theory. It focuses on how 9th grade students will learn about Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet through collaborative activities, games, and formative assessments. Students will analyze themes, characters, language, and develop their understanding of the play through group work, technology use, and connecting with peers. The goals are to expose students to Shakespeare in an engaging way and help them make sense of the complex text.
The document summarizes a research project exploring how reading and literacy are changing in a participatory culture. It outlines the research questions, design process, field research, and hypotheses. Key areas of focus include building reading communities, transforming domains through student expertise, and developing new forms of participatory assessment.
Bera 2009 methodological challenges to research in conditions of complexity Scottish TNE
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This summary provides an overview of a study that examined incorporating collaborative and visual learning methods into a first-year visual communication design theory course. The study found that these alternative teaching methods helped engage students in learning theory in a deeper, more meaningful way compared to traditional lecture-based methods. Specifically, the study had students collaborate with peers on assignments, develop "visual arguments" to present their research, and present their work orally to audiences, mirroring common studio practices. These methods drew on students' visual skills and collaborative abilities to enhance their learning of theoretical concepts.
The unit uses a process model curriculum and constructivist learning theory. It focuses on how 9th grade students will learn about Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet through collaborative activities, games, and formative assessments. Students will analyze themes, characters, language, and develop their understanding of the play through group work, technology use, and connecting with peers. The goals are to expose students to Shakespeare in an engaging way and help them make sense of the complex text.
The document summarizes a research project exploring how reading and literacy are changing in a participatory culture. It outlines the research questions, design process, field research, and hypotheses. Key areas of focus include building reading communities, transforming domains through student expertise, and developing new forms of participatory assessment.
Bera 2009 methodological challenges to research in conditions of complexity Scottish TNE
This document discusses the methodological challenges of researching a pilot Bachelor of Education program in Scotland. It notes that the program was designed based on principles of evidence-driven socio-constructivism but faced internal contradictions between those principles and standards-based approaches. It also discusses tensions between the researcher's role as an outside observer versus a participating insider, and between technical rationalist models of research preferred by policymakers versus more dialogical research approaches. Lessons learned include the need for open discussion of practices and understandings, collaborative use of data to align values rather than evaluate truth claims, and creating collective research narratives.
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The document discusses various models and theories of ePortfolios and reflection. It describes ePortfolio models from different universities, including ones focused on general education, leadership development, and cultural values. It also outlines theories of reflection from scholars like Dewey, Schön, and Kolb. The document raises questions about how these models and theories can inform curriculum design and the role of reflection, identities, and lifelong learning.
Exploring the Potential of Visual Art in Negotiating Social Transformation at...Jakob Pedersen
This is a presentation given by Dr. Elmarie Costandius, Stellenbosch University. This presentation was given for the NRF Posthumanist Project based at the University of the Western Cape. All work herein is owned by Dr. Elmarie Costandius
Co creation presentation may 2015 (1) (1)felicityrs
The document discusses best practices for co-creating curriculum with partners. It outlines three stages: 1) identifying problems and opportunities in the community, 2) determining needed skills, and 3) designing curriculum. Curriculum design requires understanding community issues and skills needs. A cyclical approach is advocated, involving research, action and learning. Challenges include balancing student and community goals and power differentials. Reciprocal relationships and community representation are important considerations.
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This document summarizes a research study on children's collaborative creative writing. The study observed pairs of 7-9 year old children engaged in creative writing activities in classroom and computer lab settings. It analyzed the social and cognitive processes involved in shared text composition using video recordings. The research identified discourse patterns that facilitated shared understanding and supported joint creative writing. Specifically, it found that emotions played a significant role throughout the collaborative writing process. It also found that children relied heavily on overlapping speech, indicating intense sharing that supported mutual inspiration in generating content for their writing. These findings provide insights into how peer interaction can resource school-based creative activities.
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1. Teaching multiliteracies aims to develop cognitive and social literacy skills for interacting with different text types including print, digital, and visual. It also aims to promote social change through critical analysis of power relations in curriculum.
2. Key theorists who developed the concept of multiliteracies include Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope, and the New London Group from 1994. They advocate using a "knowledge processes" approach to develop higher-order thinking.
3. Teachers are encouraged to incorporate multimodal texts and new technologies to explore social issues and develop critical literacy. Frameworks like learning-by-design are used to plan lessons around knowledge processes.
This document discusses rethinking approaches to teaching study skills. It presents three models: the study skills model which focuses on surface features and skills transfer; the academic socialization model which focuses on acculturating students into disciplinary discourses; and the academic literacies model which views literacy as social practices negotiated within institutions of power and identity. The academic literacies model has implications for more inclusive, emancipatory approaches interrogating dominant academic cultures and power relations. Dialogic frameworks are suggested to encourage negotiation of academic identities and practices.
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This document discusses learning design, which aims to make educational design practices more explicit. It proposes a new methodology called "learning design" to shift educational design from an implicit to an explicit and design-based practice. The author provides an overview of learning design research at the Open University, including the development of conceptual design views, a tool for visualizing designs called CompendiumLD, and an online social network called Cloudworks for sharing and discussing learning designs. The author argues that adopting a more principled design approach could help practitioners make more informed choices about designing learning interventions and integrating technology and pedagogy.
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- Traditional education focuses on content and assessment but may not develop skills needed in modern society.
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Collaborative autoethnography involves two or more researchers exploring a topic through self-reflection and discussion to gain a deeper understanding of their experiences. It was the focus of a recent workshop facilitated by CRADLE at Deakin University, where participants from various faculties discussed how collaborative autoethnography could support reflection on teaching practices and research in higher education. The workshop helped those new to the method understand it better and allowed those with experience using it to share insights into its benefits, challenges, and ethical considerations for generating meaningful self-study.
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This summary provides an overview of a summer literacy program for adolescents that aimed to merge technology, popular culture, reading, and writing for academic purposes:
1) The program involved 12 high school students participating in daily sessions over 3 weeks that focused on technology, reading, and writing, using graphic novels and popular culture texts.
2) Students engaged in multimedia projects using Comic Life software to create digital comics combining images and text, learning reading comprehension strategies, and writing for different purposes and audiences.
3) The goal was to build on students' interests and skills with popular culture and technology to further develop their literacy abilities, making connections between multiple literacies.
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SOC-481Action Research Project ProposalAssignment.docxpbilly1
SOC-481
Action Research Project Proposal
Assignment
Instructions: This is a three-part assignment, in which you develop a proposal for a viable action research project. The purpose of the proposal is to engage and inform potential funders of the project, as well as other key stakeholder groups invested in social change initiatives. The proposal should clearly and succinctly describe all aspects of your proposed project, clearly explaining what you will do and why. Please note that you are not required to implement the project as part of the SOC-481 coursework.
In PART 1 of the assignment, you will develop the initial sections of an action research proposal.
In PART 2, you will build upon and revise the initial sections of the proposal (as needed), adding the last sections of the proposal and completing a final draft of the proposal.
In PART 3, you will develop a PowerPoint presentation, to include an overview of your proposed project, as well as a completed SWOT Analysis which could potentially be used to guide further development of the proposed project.
____________________________________________________________________________
PART 1
Instructions
Create a first draft of the initial sections of your action research project proposal. This section of the proposal should be approximately 1,000-1,500 words, and include the following:
1. Title of the proposed action research project
2. Introduction (150-250 words)
Identify the main subject area to be investigated (e.g., poverty, homelessness, gender or racial inequality, institutional change).
Briefly summarize the scope and nature of the proposed research project.
Orient the reader to proposal purpose and structure.
3. Description of a Social Problem in Need of Change (500-700 words)
Research Problem: Craft a succinct description of a concern/issue, a problem in need of a solution, or an unknown area to be explored through the proposed project. Be sure to identify a local context (e.g., neighborhood or community) where the project could potentially be developed and implemented.
Literature Review and Justification to Study the Research Problem: Summarize evidence from the scholarly literature, indicating why this is a problem in need of a solution, or why it is an area where additional research and learning is needed. Be sure to include information of relevance to understanding the broader social area to be addressed (e.g., poverty, gender discrimination) as well as the local neighborhood or community where the project would potentially be implemented (e.g. a specific distressed neighborhood or community). You may also wish to include a brief review of previous community-based projects focusing on your topic and/or community of interest, noting how your proposed project could potentially build upon and/or strengthen earlier efforts to advance social change.
Gaps in the Evidence: Based on the evidence you have reviewed, summarize what is missing or what additional information i.
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2. Permissive - Parents are very lenient and make few demands. They avoid discipline and do not
require mature behavior.
3. Authoritative - Parents are both demanding and responsive. They require mature behavior but are
also warm and supportive. Clear communication of expectations is provided.
4. Uninvolved - Parents are neither demanding nor responsive. They are emotionally detached and
do not actively engage with their children.
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The document discusses the use of e-portfolios and blogging for teacher professional development and reflective practice. Key points include:
- Teachers found that sharing reflections in a blog within an e-portfolio space allowed them to feel safe to discuss experiences without criticism and see others' perspectives. This supported their growth as reflective writers and practitioners.
- E-portfolios allow students to reflect, answer each others' questions, and have discussions independent of the teacher, facilitating ongoing reflection in and on practice.
- E-portfolios are presented as a tool to support critical reflective practice in teacher training through dialogic pedagogies and tools like PebblePad.
This document discusses the importance of teaching non-fiction writing genres in schools. It notes that non-fiction writing has traditionally been neglected compared to fictional writing. The document advocates using a "genre theory" approach where teachers explicitly teach common non-fiction genres like reports, explanations, procedures, etc. and their defining structural elements. The purpose of a text helps determine its generic structure. The document provides the example of instruction texts typically having the structure of stating the goal, listing materials, and providing steps. It encourages teachers to help students understand these common non-fiction genres and scaffold their writing within these established structures.
(Unit 1&2) ReadingThe Action Research Dissertation A Guide for .docxmercysuttle
(Unit 1&2) Reading
The Action Research Dissertation: A Guide for Students and Faculty text
2
Action Research Traditions and Knowledge Interests
As we discussed in Chapter 1, action research is a cover term for several approaches that have emerged from different traditions. Everyone who uses action research for a dissertation should be steeped in the particular tradition they are working out of and its attendant methodological, epistemological, and political dilemmas (e.g., participatory action research [PAR], teacher research, community-based participatory research, etc.). We do not pretend to provide this level of grounding in this chapter, but we do try to provide some sense of how these traditions relate to each other and where students and faculty can go for more extensive accounts. There are several historical overviews of action research, but most are told from a particular intellectual and social tradition, such as the overviews provided by Anderson et al. (2007, practitioner research); Argyris, Putnam, and Smith (1985, action science); Bullough and Pinnegar (2001, self-study); Chambers (1997, participatory rural appraisal); Cochran-Smith and Lytle (1993, teacher research); Fals Borda (2001, participatory action research); Greenwood and Levin (2006, action research); and Maguire (1987b, feminist participatory action research). In this section, we will try to be as inclusive as possible so that students consulting this book for guidance on their dissertations can find their particular tradition of action research represented. There is also a need for a participatory dialogue among these traditions, which academic departmentalization has tended to balkanize into self-contained scholarly communities and bibliographies.
Historians are in the business of creating—not discovering or interpreting—historical meaning. In this chapter, we have done our best to get our “facts” straight, but the meaning one makes of them will depend on who is telling the story. To our knowledge, no attempt at a comprehensive history of action research exists, and our intent is not to provide one here. While the previous chapter attempted to offer some common elements of action research, there may be as much variation across action research traditions as there is between action research and some mainstream approaches to research. Some action research is group oriented and some is individual oriented; some is done by those within the setting and some is done by change agents from outside the organization in collaboration with insiders; and some is highly participatory and some is much less so. Similarly, some see the goal of action research as improving practice or developing individuals, whereas others see its goal as transforming practice, participants, organizations, or, in some cases, even society. Debates rage within action research around these issues.
To the extent possible, our goal in this book is to present all of these perspectives in an evenhanded way. ...
This summary provides an overview of a study on improving teaching presence in virtual classrooms:
1. The study examined the three presences (social, cognitive, and teaching) that make up the Community of Inquiry model in blended and online courses. It specifically looked at how teaching presence relates to student satisfaction and instructor interaction.
2. A survey based on the Community of Inquiry instrument was administered to students to collect data on the three presences and how they may relate to demographics and differ between online and blended courses.
3. Preliminary results found the survey to have excellent reliability. Factor analysis also supported the validity of the three presences as distinct constructs.
The document discusses open education and its role in addressing social justice. It defines open education as resources, tools, and practices that are free of barriers and can be fully used and shared digitally. Open education is important as it increases access to education and allows for localization and collaboration. The document presents four models of open textbook production that vary in levels of student and colleague collaboration, from participatory/engagement to co-creation/partnership. It argues that open education can only truly address underlying power structures through critical reflection and including previously excluded knowledge across institutions and globally.
The document summarizes the key ideas generated from idea harvesting sessions at three Art of Science Learning conferences in 2011. Almost 400 participants attended and generated a large number of ideas focused on making science learning more concrete, specific, and actionable. The report organizes these ideas into categories like community of practice, policy, and program-related ideas. It aims to cull the most implementable concepts and suggest areas for further discussion or action to advance integration of art and science in education.
The document discusses critical literacy and its development and applications in education. It provides definitions of critical literacy from various scholars and outlines some of its key principles, including critiquing relationships between language, power and social practices. It also discusses how critical literacy has evolved since the 1970s and been taken up in different educational contexts. Several classroom applications of critical literacy are described, such as using questioning techniques and choosing empowering texts for students.
This document summarizes Matthew Vetter's research on using Wikipedia to teach writing and critical digital praxis. It discusses his work having students edit Wikipedia to address representation gaps. Specifically, it describes a collaboration where 54 students created or edited 61 Wikipedia articles on topics related to gender and women's studies to help close the gender gap in representation on Wikipedia. The document also discusses some of the challenges to representation on Wikipedia and how academic interventions like this assignment can help address systemic biases by diversifying editorial populations and representation.
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SOC-481
Action Research Project Proposal
Assignment
Instructions: This is a three-part assignment, in which you develop a proposal for a viable action research project. The purpose of the proposal is to engage and inform potential funders of the project, as well as other key stakeholder groups invested in social change initiatives. The proposal should clearly and succinctly describe all aspects of your proposed project, clearly explaining what you will do and why. Please note that you are not required to implement the project as part of the SOC-481 coursework.
In PART 1 of the assignment, you will develop the initial sections of an action research proposal.
In PART 2, you will build upon and revise the initial sections of the proposal (as needed), adding the last sections of the proposal and completing a final draft of the proposal.
In PART 3, you will develop a PowerPoint presentation, to include an overview of your proposed project, as well as a completed SWOT Analysis which could potentially be used to guide further development of the proposed project.
____________________________________________________________________________
PART 1
Instructions
Create a first draft of the initial sections of your action research project proposal. This section of the proposal should be approximately 1,000-1,500 words, and include the following:
1. Title of the proposed action research project
2. Introduction (150-250 words)
Identify the main subject area to be investigated (e.g., poverty, homelessness, gender or racial inequality, institutional change).
Briefly summarize the scope and nature of the proposed research project.
Orient the reader to proposal purpose and structure.
3. Description of a Social Problem in Need of Change (500-700 words)
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Literature Review and Justification to Study the Research Problem: Summarize evidence from the scholarly literature, indicating why this is a problem in need of a solution, or why it is an area where additional research and learning is needed. Be sure to include information of relevance to understanding the broader social area to be addressed (e.g., poverty, gender discrimination) as well as the local neighborhood or community where the project would potentially be implemented (e.g. a specific distressed neighborhood or community). You may also wish to include a brief review of previous community-based projects focusing on your topic and/or community of interest, noting how your proposed project could potentially build upon and/or strengthen earlier efforts to advance social change.
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- E-portfolios allow students to reflect, answer each others' questions, and have discussions independent of the teacher, facilitating ongoing reflection in and on practice.
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Action Research Traditions and Knowledge Interests
As we discussed in Chapter 1, action research is a cover term for several approaches that have emerged from different traditions. Everyone who uses action research for a dissertation should be steeped in the particular tradition they are working out of and its attendant methodological, epistemological, and political dilemmas (e.g., participatory action research [PAR], teacher research, community-based participatory research, etc.). We do not pretend to provide this level of grounding in this chapter, but we do try to provide some sense of how these traditions relate to each other and where students and faculty can go for more extensive accounts. There are several historical overviews of action research, but most are told from a particular intellectual and social tradition, such as the overviews provided by Anderson et al. (2007, practitioner research); Argyris, Putnam, and Smith (1985, action science); Bullough and Pinnegar (2001, self-study); Chambers (1997, participatory rural appraisal); Cochran-Smith and Lytle (1993, teacher research); Fals Borda (2001, participatory action research); Greenwood and Levin (2006, action research); and Maguire (1987b, feminist participatory action research). In this section, we will try to be as inclusive as possible so that students consulting this book for guidance on their dissertations can find their particular tradition of action research represented. There is also a need for a participatory dialogue among these traditions, which academic departmentalization has tended to balkanize into self-contained scholarly communities and bibliographies.
Historians are in the business of creating—not discovering or interpreting—historical meaning. In this chapter, we have done our best to get our “facts” straight, but the meaning one makes of them will depend on who is telling the story. To our knowledge, no attempt at a comprehensive history of action research exists, and our intent is not to provide one here. While the previous chapter attempted to offer some common elements of action research, there may be as much variation across action research traditions as there is between action research and some mainstream approaches to research. Some action research is group oriented and some is individual oriented; some is done by those within the setting and some is done by change agents from outside the organization in collaboration with insiders; and some is highly participatory and some is much less so. Similarly, some see the goal of action research as improving practice or developing individuals, whereas others see its goal as transforming practice, participants, organizations, or, in some cases, even society. Debates rage within action research around these issues.
To the extent possible, our goal in this book is to present all of these perspectives in an evenhanded way. ...
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A Preliminary Study And Research Protocol For Investigating Sociocultural Issues In Instructional Design
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A Preliminary Study and Research Protocol for
Investigating Sociocultural Issues in Instructional Design
Katy Campbell
University of Alberta
Richard A. Schwier
University of Saskatchewan
Heather Kanuka
University of Alberta
Cite as: Campbell, K., Kanuka, H., & Schwier, R.A. (2009, April). A preliminary study and research
protocol for investigating sociocultural issues in instructional design. Paper presented at the annual
conference of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
Abstract
The purpose of this project was to initiate a program of research to explore how instructional
designers around the world use design to make a social difference locally and globally. The central
research question was, “Are there social and political purposes for design that are culturally based?” A
growing body of research is concerned with the design of culturally-appropriate learning resources and
environments, but the focus of this research is the instructional designer as the agent of the design.
Colloquially put, if we design for ourselves, we should understand the sociocultural influences on us and
how they inform our practices. We should also develop respect for, and learn from, how various global
cultures address similar design problems differently. This paper reports the results of a preliminary
investigation held with instructional designers from ten countries to examine culturally situated values and
practices of instructional design, and it presents a research protocol that was developed to expand the
investigation internationally.
Background
The idea of design culture is well-established. Most notably, investigations of professional culture
have attracted significant attention (Hill, J.; Bichelmeyer, B.; Boling, E.; Gibbons, A.; Grabowski, B.;
Osguthorpe, R.; Schwier, R. & Wager, W. (2005).). These investigations have concentrated on how
different professions, such as architecture, drama, engineering and fine art approach design differently, with
the goal of informing the practice of design in instructional design (ID).
In related research, our research team investigated the idea of agency in instructional design,
specifically the roles of instructional designers as agents of interpersonal, professional, institutional and
societal change (e.g., Campbell, Schwier, & Kenny, in press; Schwier, Campbell, & Kenny, 2007). As an
artifact of our research into agency, we realized that design is a complex and multivariate notion that is
manifest differently in different design professions, and perhaps in different parts of the world. In short, we
began to understand that there might be different cultures of design at work, and these cultures carry the
possibility of informing theory and practice in instructional design. More importantly, we wondered if this
research might contribute to a more culturally sensitive, globally responsible, and morally coherent
approach to instructional design. This initial exploratory project was intended to 1) support the
development of a research network to explore cultures of design, or cultural influences on instructional
design practice, and 2) gather baseline information about how design is conducted in a handful of distinct
geopolitical regions. The initial purpose of the present program is to ask what designers from different
geo/sociopolitical cultures could share with each other to inform the idea of instructional design for “the
public good.” The world is increasingly a global learning community that must share knowledge and work
collaboratively for the good of humankind, and this implies a need for open, free and unfettered
communication among professions and across cultures. The call for open, cross-disciplinary
communication opposes the tradition of narrow silos of information, jealously protected from intrusion and
theft that seems to dominate disciplines in higher education today.
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Because learning/education is shown to be a key indicator of social and economic health and well
being, we hope that this study will help instructional designers interpret their roles more broadly, and think
of themselves as agents of social change locally and globally. But we find that this is not how instructional
design has been traditionally approached or taught in higher education in North America, at least.
Conventional literature in instructional design concentrates very intensively on process—how instructional
design is carried out, what strategies and approaches work in various contexts, and how designers should
systematically practice their craft (e.g., Dick & Carey, 2005; Morrison, Ross, & Kemp, 2004; Smith &
Ragan, 2005). Models no doubt serve a useful purpose, one part of which is to help ground our identities as
practitioners. For example, younger or less experienced designers seem to tend to talk about tasks and
technologies rather than larger implications of their work (Schwier, 2004). But the actual use to which
ADDIE and similar systematic models of instructional design are put, and the worth of such models, has
been called into question by North American writers many times and for several reasons over the years (c.f.
Gordon & Zemke, 2000; Molenda, 2003; Siemens, 2008; Tripp & Bichelmeyer, 1991; Visscher-Voerman
& Gustafson, 2004). Systematic models of ID have been accused of not reflecting actual practice, of being
cumbersome, ineffective, inefficient and costly to implement.
Recent research examining the actual practice of instructional designers suggests that practice
varies significantly according to context (cf. Cox & Osguthorpe, 2003; Kenny, Zhang, Schwier &
Campbell, 2004; Visscher-Voerman & Gustafson, 2004). Other critics argue that the field lacks focus
(Bichelmeyer, Smith, & Hessig, 2004), and still others argue that key aspects of instructional design have
been overlooked in conventional literature. For example, our own research suggests that clients (i.e. faculty
members in higher education) working with instructional designers in development projects are actually
engaging, as learners, in a process of professional and personal transformation that has the potential to
transform the institution and society. Rogoff (1990) argues that participation in learning hinges on
communication between people in a group, in terms of shared understanding or shared thinking. Others
(Boylan, Sutton & Anderson, 2003;, Glaser, 1991; Gunawardena, Carabajal & Lowe, 2001; Siemens, 2008;
Tergan, 1997; & Thomas, 2002) believe that learning is most effective if it is embedded in social
experience and connections among learners, leaders content, and context, and if it is situated in authentic
problem-solving contexts entailing cognitive demands relevant for coping with real life situations, and
occurs through social intercourse. In other words, instructional design may be a socially constructed
practice. The instructional design process, in which faculty, designers, and others develop new ideas and
understandings through conversation, may be a form of cultural learning or collaborative learning.
Our experience interviewing instructional designers in other countries suggests to us that there may be
geo-political cultures of instructional design at work, but we have found no research that deals specifically
with the influence of that aspect of culture on the theory and practice of instructional design. Increasingly,
whether face-to-face or online, instructional designers must learn to work with team members representing
many different cultures of teaching, learning and design. We suspect that, for instance:
• They must acknowledge and respect cultural differences,
• They must understand and respect multiple values/perspectives, and
• They must work with colleagues with different design expectations and practices
Just as there are different learning cultures, we think that there may be different cultural models of
instructional design. In this pilot study we propose to bring together instructional designers from different
parts of the world to consider the implications of culture on instructional design, and culturally-based ways
of knowing and practice. Ultimately, we hope to recruit and engage a team of researchers in a program of
research to address this important and emerging area of research.
Design and Outcomes of the Singapore Symposium
A two-day symposium of instructional design professionals and scholars was held in Singapore,
with representatives from Canada, Australia, Asia, North America, Europe, Australia, and Africa. The
primary purpose of the meeting was to identify a core group to participate in the study and conduct a
preliminary exploration of the notion of instructional design cultures from different cultural perspectives.
A second purpose was to collaborate on developing a research protocol that each representative could
employ in conducting interviews with other designers by videoconference or audioconference in every
country and continent we could reach. The remainder of this paper is a narrative accont of the organization
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and results of the pilot (symposium), the preliminary data, and the potential research protocol to be used in
the larger international program of research exploring culturally situated values and practice, for example,
models or frameworks, of instructional designers.
The invitation
In the spring of 2006, I (Campbell) sent an email to my colleague Dr. AK, at the Open University
of Malaysia, asking her to join our very small research network. Rick and I had presented the paper
“Transforming Higher Education: Agency and the Instructional Designer” at the 2006 annual meeting of
the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and had sat down over coffee to ask, ‘what’s the
next step?’ Rick had been working with a research network, IDT Futures, and was very interested in what
scholars and practitioners in design professions, as a community of practice, could learn from one another.
I was interested in pursuing further the idea of moral coherence and design metaphors in agentic
instructional design. By the end of the chat, we had sketched out a project to explore both strands, but with
an international scope, and I immediately thought of AK as a research partner, or at least facilitator. Figure
1 shows the email invitation I sent to AK and, Figure 2, was her response. Over the next eighteen months
Rick, AK and I sent ideas and links back and forth over email, and when I visited the University of
Saskatchewan the following January on another pilot study (Instructional designer disciplinary-based
formation of self) we invited Dr. Dirk Morrison and Dr. Heather Kanuka onto the team to make four.
Figure 3 shows the types of responses we began to receive in our “probes” for interest in the idea, and tried
to follow up on, during this time.
We were interested, and encouraged, to discover that our hunch that instructional design as a
concept and a profession was not universal had some merit. In other words, while most of the designers
and scholars that began to contact us, for example through AK and her contacts, were graduates of
American graduate programs in instructional design; others did not have a graduate credential because
there was no ID field or discipline in their areas of the world. Although this presented us with a problem in
recruiting colleagues from many areas (e.g. Eastern Europe), we wondered how practitioners and scholars
from different geopolitical areas were framing their praxis and research. This was really the key research
issue.
By the winter of 2007 a few of our early contacts became impatient (Figure 4). An invitation to
join an international research network, as loose as it was in spring of 2006, was seen as prestigious in
several of the tertiary institutions involved. Although we had failed to attract external funding, I had
enough internal funding to support a face-to-face meeting of a core of about one dozen ID
scholars/practitioners. At this point we had three goals: 1) to seed a community of practice; 2) to share our
research on instructional design; and 3) to determine interest in developing further an international research
proposal. During this time in the higher education sector interest in approaches to instructional design for
cultural diversity was growing. Much of the discussion centered on either usability (e.g.
internationalization and/or localization) or content for online learning, but not on the culture of instructional
design or sociocultural influences on the instructional designer as a moral agent, that is, as influencing the
shape of the learning design. Figure 5, a posting from ITForum (http://it.coe.uga.edu/itforum),), is a rare
departure from this discourse. In this posting, the author proposes an ethnographic approach to
understanding ID as a diverse learning community comprised of multi-members including teachers,
designers, and learners.
By the spring of 2008 we had developed contacts in twelve regions and were trying to fill in our
gaps, and had written an executive summary of the proposed network that included a preliminary literature
review. The idea of a representative, generative symposium in a mutually accessible location was taking
shape; given our level of funding we worked out several scenarios and decided that we could afford to meet
in Singapore for two days; most of the participants would be able to join us if we were able to cover at least
a portion of their expenses. We were determined to involve designers or self-described ID scholars from as
many cultures as possible, without excluding those from less wealthy or less well-connected countries, or
whether their English skills were fluent or not. After some lively online discussion we reached consensus
on an honorarium for each participant to help defray travel expenses, while the project would cover all
hotel and most meal costs. We soon realized that framing the symposium as an invitational research
conference would assist several of our colleagues to convince their department heads to send them to the
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meeting. We also acknowledged that there could be a sense of unequal authority based on dominant culture
perceptions, range of research and/or design experience, cultural background (e.g. language ability),
academic status, and other factors (Figures 4 & 6). Formal letters of invitation were sent, along with a
formal agenda (Appendix 1). To this point the participants were not necessarily known to one another,
although every one of them had had contact with a member of the original team and many knew each other
from conferences, local projects, and even the years they’d spent at an American tertiary institution. In late
June 2008 we asked each confirmed participant individually if they would like to become part of a secure
social network supported by elgg (elgg.com) to develop a community of practice (Figure 7). We added
members of the new community once they confirmed by return email that they were willing to be “known”.
The first activity of the community was to negotiate the confidentiality compact. In the end, the
community has served mainly as an administrative site. As the meeting date drew near, we began to
experience our first attritions, losing representation from Brazil, the US, and Australia. The community,
however, all agreed that each “regret” could stay active in elgg and participate offline.
The symposium in Singapore
During the summer months of 2008 Shairoz, our administrative assistant, tried to finalize all the
travel and meeting arrangements. She had made contact with a colleague of AK’s at U21Global who was
willing to host the meetings. The contact recommended a hotel close by. Purchase orders and invoices
began to cross each other in the mail and on the Internet, regularly being misdirected and misinterpreted.
We were required to pay one-half of the full amount 90 days before the date of the symposium, the final
amount to be received one week before we arrived. The concept of “half-board” confused Sharon and her
contact was unable to clarify.
While she struggled with international processes and procedures the Canadian team worked on the
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with polite, if not enthusiastic, agreement (see Appendix 1 for agenda). We didn’t want to overplan the two
days, preferring to leave enough flexibility for emerging issues and for building trust among members.
Furthermore, we were cognizant of our dominant authority status and ethnocentric experiences with
instructional design, the very culture we were proposing to deconstruct. At the same time, however, we
needed to respect the time commitment of these colleagues who were traveling from as far away as
Switzerland to join us for two days. How to use the time profitably to meet our goals was a challenge to
this team of designers. Finally, we agreed that Rick would develop two case studies designed to tease out
sociocultural differences in design practice. We attached the two cases (Appendix 2) with the final pre-
meeting email in Figure 8. We packed. And then just days before we left U21Global alerted us that
October date was a national holiday and that the university buildings would be locked. We found it fitting
and even somewhat amusing that a cultural holiday we had overlooked caused last minute complications.
Sharon, who probably found it less amusing, was back on the telephone with our hotel, hoping that hotel
meeting rooms were, after all, available (they were). Hasty email revisions, and---finally, we arrived in
Singapore.
The day of the first meeting we all arrived in the hotel boardroom, formally dressed, bristling with
notebooks and research papers. We took random places around the table except for the Canadians, who
were left at one end. Ethnic groupings formed. Laptops appeared and the inevitable competition for
electrical outlets and delay for wireless access occurred. Everyone agreed to be (audio) recorded so that we
would be able to develop a comprehensive meeting report for the participants. I began by greeting
everyone and thanking them for making a (mostly) self-funded trip and for their commitment to ID
research. I then modeled the first planned activity, a narrative account of “coming to” instructional design.
I told my story of maternal teaching culture; my first teaching appointment in a rural community where I
was forced to quickly develop curriculum; then beginning to reflect on my teaching and relate it to theory;
returning to graduate school and its terrible surprises; meeting a mentor and having an epiphany about
technology and learning; becoming an instructional designer without formal preparation, how I learned
about ID retrospectively and discovering that the literature was not describing my practice; the beginning of
my research into a constructivist practice of instructional design – but mostly all about serendipity and
unexpected outcomes. I expected to be followed by other stories of paths taken and not, but instead was
greeted with surprised silence and curiosity that a narrative approach was considered valid in the field. In
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the conversation that followed it was clear that personal narrative was not particularly comfortable for
members of the group. In particular, our colleague from the Middle East was unprepared to share such
personal feelings, and in any case was not fluent enough in English to speak profoundly and reflectively.
What had not occurred to us – to me – was that narrative inquiry might be a North American methodology.
The subsequent offerings reflected chronological accounts of graduate learning, mostly in American
universities with PhD programs in Educational Technology such as Syracuse, experience with ISD models
of ID and quasi-experimental research designs, and institutional expectations of scholarship.
Following lunch and a group walk, Rick and Heather shared their stories of practice and began to
focus on their research interests, sharing published papers and, in Rick’s case, a slide presentation and
exploration of several of his online projects. By the afternoon individuals were more comfortable asking
each other questions and revealing their “design artifacts”. We noticed that our participant from Africa
stayed mostly silent but seemed engaged, the participant from Western Europe quickly attuned to the idea
of narrative and ID, and began to assertively weave his experience with faculty development into the
discussion, while a group from Asia formed a sub-group that chatted quietly during the presentations—
probing their understandings among themselves and developing ideas for a local project. By the end of the
day it was clear that the “metaphor” activity would not be productive or meaningful. The community
caucused and decided to forgo formal presentations of their current research papers. As well, because we
felt more comfortable with each other, the Canadians suggested dressing more casually for the next day, a
suggestion that met at first with uneasiness and then relief. During the evening’s dinner party one of the
Asian participants told us that the cultural expectation for such meetings was very formal and often served
as a status check for participants, hence the initial discomfort with our invitation to let the next day evolve
more organically.
We had thought comparing approaches to Rick’s cases would tease out sociocultural differences in
design approaches. However, the next day the activity encouraged participants to discuss approaches to
designing for diversity within the cases. Our original team tried explicitly to bring the conversation back to
our research question, but this did not occur. At one point Western Europe strongly lobbied for us to come
to consensus about the meaning of “culture” itself, so that we could all use the same frame. Rick, the
informal moderator, immediately started a community wiki and we began creating a common
understanding of “culture”. Those with laptops began to google related terms. I pulled up several sites and
articles from the usability literature, for example Nielsen’s (http://www.useit.com) observations about
internationalization; Hofstede’s (c.f. ) work on cultural dimensions and research using that framework.
Others worked with Rick on a first sentence. As I worked I reflected that academics inevitably want to
immediately define terms before the deep meaning-making can occur; the process of arriving at
understanding interested me more. As the day wore on, however, and our efforts to develop a common
understanding of culture increasingly became a source of tension, it was clear that we needed to shift the
discussion away from “culture” as a concept and towards next steps for the community. A complete break
was required; we scheduled an hour for napping, visiting, shopping, doing email….and quietly putting our
core team heads together to decide how to retrieve the warm and productive ethos of the morning and the
day before.
Break over, and group refreshed, the force of expectation turned on the team. Although we had
hoped that by afternoon #2 we would have found complete collaboration, evidently it was still our agenda.
We had underestimated the moral authority of the Western team, who had subsidized the symposium and
set the agenda. A social networking site, mostly untested, and existing relationships had not automatically
breached the sociocultural boundaries. However, we would be able to find a lingua franca through the
global requirements of the academic culture—an externally-funded, international research collaboration.
The Asian members of the community who had been a subgroup during the two days had worked together
to propose a study, originating and funded in Malaysia, to explore design and meta-design issues related to
curriculum development for an online teacher education course with international participants. Those who
did not understand, or were not interested in, our question, “Are there social and political purposes for
design that are culturally based?” would work on issues of designing for cultural diversity, while those of
us interested in the design praxis could refer to the course design process itself.
What’s next?
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To prepare for this session, we posted several questions to our community (Appendix 3). To date we have
three responses. Common threads include cultural expectations embedded in instructional design for
diversity, particularly where indigenous peoples explicitly form part of the learning community: “The
adaptation of these models for my own cultural context was not a conscious experience as sensitivity to the
multi-racial composition seems to be firmly planted at the sub-conscious level.”
This is a direct contrast with Canadian design practice, where Aboriginals are all but invisible, and
diversity, let alone accessibility, is usually considered only when a needs assessment identifies specific
learner groups.
We are generally concerned with the mutli-racial composition, not only in terms of the three
primary races (Malays, Chinese and Indians) but also the various indigenous groups in Sabah and
Sarawak. Generally, the former drives our decision with regard to ensuring that we represent
every race in our learning examples, remembering to include as many or at least the major
religious/festive celebrations and remembering the taboos of each race and respecting the cultural
differences so as not to unintentionally offend the other….In professional environments such as in
training, the predominant language used is English or Malay depending on the audience but in
some instances, we offer a bi-lingual option to ensure a wider reach among the audience…There
are some major differences between Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak)
and minor differences between each of the states in Malaysia. We try to include as many
examples in terms of food, places, festivals, flowers, etc. in examples or stories.
Those individuals trained in North America recognize that Asians “are largely in behaviorist and cognitivist
modes of learning….lesser constructivist or connectivist learning principles are applied. We are largely
assessment driven and assessments are largely based on learning outcomes commonly based on Bloom’s
taxonomy. Hence, when doing ID, I will have these in mind” and, “I was more interested in their
philosophical approach (referring to graduate study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.)...
Constructivism dominated to my graduate work which still is in difficulty adopting to Korean instructional
culture.” However, while each respondent is aware of their design provenance they are able to be both
critical and adaptive, “I learned instructional design made by Western scholars” and, with professional
experience they were able to identify the uneasy “fits”, for example by recognizing “those ID models do
not represent our circumstances such as learner analysis. Korean schools or institutes do not need to pay
attention much to religion, race, language or age gaps due to the relatively homogenous society.”
From my own institutional context in which social networking is viewed with anxiety and actively
discouraged as a teaching/learning tool, I am interested in the apparently enthusiastic adoption of Web 2.0
(and beyond) in Asian countries, “…well encouraged to adopt SN in instruction…Cyworld is the first
social networking environment in the world where more than 50% of Koreans have accounts. Web 2.0 is
one of tools strongly encouraged to use when instruction is designed.”
Finally, ethics approval for transforming, retroactively, a networking meeting into a pilot study is
complex at best, and has to date consumed four months. At issue is whether informed consent can be
obtained retroactively, and how to obtain institutional consent from ten international universities, whose
expectations and requirements differ from each other.
What have we learned so far, and where can we go from here? We offer a few thoughts, and
additional questions, here.
1. The research question itself reflects an ethnocentric concern, or at least curiosity.
2. The process of developing an international research partnership is worthy of study.
3. The Canadian team did not do the hard work of surfacing their own cultural assumptions
about developing an international research design community.
4. Most international instructional designers with graduate preparation have been enculturated
with ISD.
5. Language fluency is critical to deep processing to collaboratively develop conceptual
understanding.
6. Narrative inquiry is not universally accepted or well-understood as an appropriate research
method in EdTech.
7. Western journals are not the main source of either research information or dissemination. For
example, several colleagues regularly publish in, and read the Journal of Instructional
Research in Southeast Asia.
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8. While trained in the U.S., designers in different cultures will naturally modify their practice to
accommodate local concerns. At the same time, we wonder whether the dominance of North
American institutions in preparing instructional designers results in a form of unintentional
cultural imperialism.
9. Power and authority issues were shared, but academic authority seems to vary significantly
between the North American academy and elsewhere.
10. It is likely to take considerable time to develop the level of trust necessary to explore cross-
cultural issues.
11. Does the commonality of the professional culture of ID complicate the challenge of teasing
out culture-specific issues?
12. Did the structure of the meeting, while helpful in many cases, introduce barriers to open
disclosure?
13. Is it possible that the academic cultures where instructional designers work are more
influential than the social cultures in which they live?
Instructional designers with North American education return to their institutions to practice in diverse
sociocultural contexts. What impact does this have on the design of learning for social action around the
world? What impact will different sociocultural contexts have on the North American culture of ID?
These, and other questions, are worth exploring through innovative theoretical and methodological lens. In
this pilot, we were quite eclectic, employing, narrative and constructivist grounded theory, but
ethnography, autoethnography, case study, phenomenology, discourse analysis, and participatory and
emancipatory research approaches are all appropriate, depending on our theoretical framework(s). Our core
team is informed by constructivism, post-structuralism, and social interactionism, but cultural and critical
theory also provide a way to look at key issues, for example, “cultural imperialism”. With ethics approval,
we will be able to examine artifacts of design, such as online courses, texts, course forums, etc., and are
able to examine graduate curricula posted online.
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A Preliminary Study and Research Protocol for
Investigating Sociocultural Issues in Instructional Design
Figures and Tables
Figure 1. First contact with Dr. AK
From: Katy Campbell
Date: May 2, 2006 8:22:22 PM MDT (CA)
To: AK
Subject: connecting again and a research idea
Hi Abtar, It's been way too long since we've been in touch! Much has happened… I have a research
proposition for you…. One of my research partners… is Dr. Rick Schwier from the University of
Saskatchewan. He has a good network in Australia and New Zealand….I've attached a few of our
most recent papers. We've ended up with an agentic model with 4 compo nents that are reconciled
with the notion of moral coherence. I've been very interested in post -structuralism so we've been
looking at non -unitary subjectivities and positionality.... In any event, we want to take a different angle
now on this. Rick has been very interested in communities of practice and I have been interested in
gender issues for a long time, as you know. For me this has broadened into the idea of culture and
inclusive instructional design. For quite a while I've wondered whether i
nstructional design is a
cultural construct. For example, I love going to ICCE because the papers of ID seem to me to reflect a
cultural perspective on the field. The Americans have a PARTICUALR history and view of theory and
practice. This is reflected in their graduate education programs. I think the same is true of Canada, we
share some of the same history but have a different sociocultural context in which to practice which, in
turn, shapes OUR theory and practice. I have observed some of thesame thing in colleagues from the
UK, and from the Netherlands. Canada and Australia seem to be very similar (for example, lots of
research on dominant culture issues, designing for indigenous learners...)….Rick and I would like to
explore this in a 3 -year study that we would propose in October to our major funding agency ($250k,
Cdn, available). We want to assemble an international, collaborative research team. Would you be
interested in being a co-investigator on this? We’re thinking an EU (or seve ral) partners, one or two
from Australia/NZ, Canada, the US, you in Malaysia, perhaps Singapore, Idon’t know anyone in Africa
but that would be great, Mexico....
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Figure 2. AK’s first response to invitation
Figure 3. Widening the net
Figure 4. What’s happening?
My Dearest Katy, I'm so happy to hear from you….It's wonderful to know all is well and
Congratulations, Prof!. The proposal is timely and if things turn out well and (we) get to meet
we must give Rick a beautiful treat on our recent promotions….Katy, I like all those intellectual
words, very jazzy yet concerns humans. I'd love to be involved in the proposed research.
Thanks. As you and Rick are probably aware, my forte is still ID but I have not done a whole
lot of good research work in this area. It is timely. Further to that, I have been giving
workshops in ID and will be conducting three very soon, one for MOE, Malaysia and two more
for teams of academics who will be here from Saudi Arabia… I was in Montreal last Summer
and met up with Hedberg and Ron. We wrote the Blended Learning chapters for Curt and
Graham's book on Blended Learning….I have contacts in South Africa and one particular ID is
very enthusiastic in this area having done lots of practical ID on the ground. Please keep me
posted and I look forward to further input from you.
I just came back from Palembang, Indonesia and I attach the most recent photographs.
Hi Katy, Let me contact a couple of my colleagues at ITESM. There has been a shift in
some of the personnel in ITESM in the last couple of years, so I’m not as in touch with their
instructional design group as I once was. In the last two years, I’ve been working with
people in Croatia, which has been quite interesting. There is no such position as an
Instructional Designer in that part of Europe! UBC helped the Croatian post-secondary
system to develop professional development certificates covering planning and
management, tutoring and course design, so I’m hoping that in a few years, there will be
more people who see themselves in a design position within some of the Croatian
universities. Have you talked to anyone in the Open University of Catalonia? They have
quite a big group of instructional designers and I might be able to find you some names
there, too.
From: Dr. Sem@African University
Subject: Re: invitation to participate in a research project
Date: February 13, 2007 11:06:29 PM MST (CA)
Good morning colleagues, May I take this opportunity to greet you in the new. African University
is still keen to participate in the international research project suggested last year, in the area of
culture of instructional designing in various countries. Is there any new developments that I can
share with my seniors?
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Figure 5. Posting from ITForum
From: ben@BENERLANDSON.COM
Subject: Culture(s), Learning, and Communties of Practice
Date: February 14, 2007 11:30:57 AM MST (CA)
To: ITFORUM@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
In my opinion, one of the most interesting questions raised by this week's paper is this: “How
do we come to understand what a more dynamic approach to instructional design might look like?” To
best account for complexities of learners' cultural predispositions, learners' individual uniqueness, and
learners' ability to change, I think a sound approach would be to consider students and instructional
designers (along with teachers, and other participant roles of the educational process) as part of a
large community of practice that consists of members somehow participating in the practice of
learning. Within this community, instructional designers can serve as a type of “boundary agent” or
broker that facilitates the process of learning through informed design. This process of design is
informed by an ethnological approach to enhance the three modes of belonging within this community:
engagement, alignment, and imagination. Wenger (2000) provides some questions that can serve as
a framework for enhancing these three modes, based on three “boundary dimensions”: coordination,
transparency, and negotiation. In terms of the original “dynamic approach” question posed in the
Rogers paper, transparency and negotiation seem to be the most pertinent. Taken from Table 2 in
Wenger's article, the boundary dimension questions are as follows, with my additions in parentheses:
Engagement and Transparency: Do people provide explanations, coaching, and demonstrations in
the context of joint activities to open windows on to each other's practices (cultures)?
Imagination and Transparency: What stories, documents, and models are available to build a
picture of another practice (culture)? What experience will allow people to walk in the other's
shoes? Do they listen deeply enough?
Imagination and Negotiation: Can both sides (cultures) see themselves as members of an
overarching community in which they have common interests and needs?
Alignment and Transparency: Are intentions, commitments, norms, and traditions made clear
enough to reveal common ground and differences in perspectives and expectations?
In this way, the cultures of all participants can be seen as additional communities to which these
participants belong, in turn making each of the participants “multi-members:” as a member of the
learning community, as a member of any number of cultural communities, and as a member of a
participant communities (i.e., student community vs. teacher community).
Framed solely from the perspective of diversity, each participant can be considered a multi-
member based on culture(s) alone. MacDonald and Bernardo (2005) define “diversity” as a dynamic,
more specifically as “ continually expanding awareness of the dynamics of difference in regard to
social power, personal perceptions, and judgments about others.” With this definition, let's consider
the on-line classroom to be globally oriented across the multiple cultures of the hundreds of
thousands (and eventually millions) of learners to which any particular set of instructional material is
offered. Each of these cultures could be considered a “marginalized” culture in the eyes of the
MacDonald and Bernardo definition of diversity, especially if we frame our progress in instructional
design as that of moving “away” or “beyond” a Western perspective of ID for the on-line learning
community. It would be essentially impossible to find learners that are strictly members of only one
culture (considering race, ethnicity, gender, age, etc. here as grounds for separate cultures). As
cultural multi-members, student participants of the learning community now have the potential as
“boundary brokers” to bring down pre-existing barriers between different cultures access to materials
and processes (thanks to a facilitated multiplicity of perspectives within the community – based on the
work of newly enlightened instructional designers). This facilitation would manifest as instructional
materials that allow the movement of participants (especially students) from peripheral participation
towards higher levels of engagement, alignment, and imagination within the global on-line learning
community. The “enlightenment” of the instructional designers responsible for the creation of these
materials would transpire in the process of asking and seeking answers to the boundary dimension
questions posed above.
References:
MacDonald R B & Bernardo M C (2005) Reconceptualizing diversity in higher education:
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Figure 6. Requesting a formal invitation
Figure 7. The elgg set-up
From: zo@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Invitation to a research project
Date: June 16, 2008 3:09:21 AM MDT (CA)
Dear Dr. Campbell,
I am really appreciated when I have received your e-mail. Dr. R. already mentioned that he gave
my e-mail address to Dr. AK for research project. It would be a great opportunity for me to attend
this workshop in Singapore on October. In fact, this trip would be my first international trip to
abroad. I am definitely interested in be a part of this workshop on instructional design practice. I
am afraid, I could not understand what the content of this workshop will be and what you
specifically want me to present at this workshop. If you please clarify these points, I would be
appreciating that. I need to figure out what the travel expenses to Singapore from Turkey would
be. Glad to know what you will be covering accommodation, meals and etc. which might really
help.
Second email on June 17, 2008
Thanks for your quick reply. Let me clarify you what my concern is: I have already passed English
Proficiency Exams that are required in my university. Although, I have written my dissertation in
Turkish, I am capable of writing in English. However, my only concern is that my practice in
English is not as good as my writing. Do you think that might it be a problem in the meeting?
As I understand from your e-mail this meeting needs a spontaneous discussion and
conversation with the other participants. However, I can do my best. What do you think? I hope
that I can be a part of this project since I am a hardworking person. And, I hope this situation can
not be a challenge for the theme of meeting.
I talked to my department chair who is also my academic advisor about your invitation. He
became very happy for me. However, he said that since this is not a conference, my university
probably may not support the traveling expenses to Singapore. I am still investigating possible
alternatives to find some funding for travel. Otherwise this travel may effect my economic
situation.
In addition, if this challenge is not a problem for you, you may send me an invitation letter.
I will try do my best to attend the meeting. I am sure that this would be a good experience for me.
Thanks for your understanding.
From: mh@ualberta.ca
Subject: RE: re ID Culture
Date: June 25, 2008 12:47:16 PM MDT (CA)
Slight change of plans Katy. I suggest we rename the site Extension Connections – a generic site for
faculty of extension research partnerships; within this Connections space I will create a sub-
community for ID Culture – which will be your area, private (access restricted to those you choose ton
allow in), to work with your research group.
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Figure 8. Final details
Figure 6. Final preparation for Singapore
From: katy.campbell@ualberta.ca
Subject: agenda for ID Symposium in Singapore
Date: October 21, 2008 9:42:14 PM MDT (CA)
Hello everyone,
I hope you are all as excited about our two days together as we are! Your "team" has been busy
organizing accommodations, and thinking about the activities for the two days. WE wanted to provide a
nice combination of exploration, creation, reflection and, most importantly. socializing! THanks to SR,
without whose commitment this would not have been possible, we have a wonderful venue, enough
food to feed an army, and an honorarium for each participant….We have planned several activities, a
few of which we ask you to prepare ahead of time. One of our goals, as we described in the summary
we sent you early in this process, is to determine if there are diverse and multiple "cultural ways of
knowing" that we use as designers. We hope that we can explore this be sharing personal examples
and stories of our educational backgrounds, beliefs about teaching and learning, career paths, decision-
making processes, institutional contexts, professional and scholarly influences, approaches to projects,
etc.
Rick Schwier has developed a "case" that we ask you to think about. How would YOU
approach this design problem? I have attached it here and it will also be posted on our web site. I'll
confess here that I haven't been to the site very much but I promise I will be better :=) We're also asking
that you bring with you a paper you've written, or a course that you've designed, or a student
assignment, or a paper that someone else has written, or anything thing else that really reflects how you
think about our field. For example, Rick and I will bring a presentation of the 'agentic model on design"
that we developed over a 4-year research study of Western Canadian instructional designers in higher
education. We will also post a paper from that study. Heather has joined us now in looking at different
aspects of that model. It will also be fine if you would rather "just listen" and share something significant
to you later in the project.
The attached agenda is an outline of what we have planned and it indicates where we want you
to spend a little time in advance. But, again, if you don't have 'just the right thing' in your files right now
there will be plenty of time, we hope, to share later. In that case, come with a good question or two.
We are passionate about instructional design, and instructional designers, and qualitative
approaches to exploring the field. An important outcome for us will be to meet colleagues who share
our commitment to this field, and to make new friends. Please email us if you have ideas of questions
and look in the elgg site regularly now for new or additional details.