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Prescription: Instructional Design, the competition case, is the final
case of the 1997 event. This year, team responses will include a full
needs assessment, including analysis of needs and alternative
solutions, along with recommendations for instructional goals and
solutions.
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Cases can provide instructional technology students with the opportunity to
experience complex, real-world situations, and to respond to them based on the
professional knowledge they've developed to that point. In the process, they
further refine their professional competencies.
The process of team collaboration can enhance this experience, providing
multiple points of view and offering individuals the opportunity to advance,
and develop support for, their own perspectives. The competition aspects of
this experience, while perhaps of secondary importance, allow this activity to
reflect the real world, where a design team must sometimes compete with
others to identify the best possible solution.
As an added benefit, each team's response will receive a careful reading from
experts outside their own educational program. Provocateurs will read and ask
each team a question related to their response. Judges will read and provide
helpful feedback, in addition to a rating of the team's performance.
Timeline for Prescription: Instructional Design Case Activities (1997):
- Mar. 10th Competition Case available. Teams begin work on their own to
develop a case response. Six hours (maximum) spent. Responses limited
to 1,800 words.
(Note that this is a three week time period, to accommodate spring
breaks.)
- Mar. 31st: Case responses due via e-mail to UVa
- Apr. 2nd: Provocateurs will begin their review of case responses and
their development of specific questions.(We will probably have each
Prov. review two case responses).
- Apr. 9th: Provocateur questions due via e-mail to UVa.
- Apr. 11th: Provocateur questions sent to teams. Teams work on their own
to develop question responses. Two hours (maximum) spent. No length
limits.
- Apr. 18th: Question responses due via e-mail to UVa.
- Apr 21st: Case & question responses to the judges. Judges begin review of
responses and development of brief written critiques and completion of
rating scales.
- May 5th: Judges' critiques and ratings due via e-mail to UVa.
- May 7th: Results announced. Judges' critiques and ratings distributed to
teams and posted as per recommendations of judge panel. Case &
question responses posted to the web site for all to review.
What Is the Case Like?
Prescription Instructional Design, the competition case, is in the
format of a story presented in a number of scenes and accompanied by a
number of ancillary materials.
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How Much Time Can Teams Spend on Their Case Responses?
Between March 10 and March 30, teams will meet to discuss the case and
develop their case response. The team may spend no more than six hours
working together on this activity . This time limit applies to meetings
of as few as two team members or to meetings of the entire team. Any
amount of time can be spent on individual reading and thought, about
the case and response (in the shower, for instance!), or that individuals
may spend writing up what the team has discussed.
What Resources Can Teams Use?
The team may refer to any written reference materials they desire in
developing their case responses. The responses, however, must be developed
by the team itself without participation of the faculty sponsor.
What Should Teams Consider in Developing Their Responses?
The team should develop a full needs assessment
for the instructional designer in the case. This needs
assessment, should include an analysis of needs and alternative
solutions, along with recommendations for instructional goals, solutions,
and which staff lines will require training. It should be based on the analysis of:
- Identification of the key issues present in the case,
- Consideration of the issues from different perspectives, including those
of the key players in the case,
- Identification of what professional knowledge they* have that would be
pertinent (and what more they need to know),
* team members
The entire case response must be 1,800 words or less.
How Much Time Can Teams Spend Developing Their Responses to the
Provocateur Questions?
On April 11th, provocateurs will send two questions to each team via e-mail
and will be developed in response to each team's needs assessment. Teams
may spend up to two hours discussing and developing their response to
both of the provocateur questions. After submission of these question
responses (due on April 18th), the team's needs assessment and their question
responses will be forwarded to the judges.
What happens during (and on completion of) the judging process?
Judges will consider each team's response. They will provide each team with
some specific feedback, and will use a rating scale to reflect the success
with which each team has addressed the issues, perpsectives, and professional
knowledge in their needs assessment.
An honor code applies to all work completed for this activity.
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