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A Case Study Of Professors' And Instructional Designers' Experiences In The Development Of Online Courses, Karl B. Stevens May 2012

A Case Study Of Professors' And Instructional Designers' Experiences In The Development Of Online Courses, Karl B. Stevens

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The objective of this study was to examine the experiences of instructional designers and professors during their efforts to develop online courses and to determine what effect their experiences had on the development process. Five professors and five instructional designers at Utah State University participated in this qualitative, single-case study. Participants were purposefully selected as matched pairs of development teams based on their respective levels of expertise in course development.

The ADDIE instructional design model was used as a conceptual framework to which emergent themes were aligned. ADDIE is an acronym for analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. The key …