How can the Case Be Used?
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 Trials
of Terry Kirkland is presented to provide instructional design students
an opportunity to discuss the case not only with faculty and students
within their programs but to develop a response to the case that will
be shared with participants from other universities as well. (All
case responses will be posted to the event web site.)
As an added benefit, each team's response will receive a careful reading
from an expert outside their own educational program. In the case,
these experts will assume Provocateur roles. Each Provocateur will
assume the role of a character from the case, and will review each
team's case response. From these roles, the Provocateurs will ask each
team questions related to the team's response. The teams' question
responses will also be posted to the event web site, so that they may
be reviewed by teams at all universities.
What Should Teams Do in Developing Their Responses?
The case requires teams to analyze the case materials and propose an
instructional design based on their reading of the case.
As they develop their instructional design case response, teams will benefit if they:
- Identify the key issues present in the case,
- Consider the issues from different perspectives, including those of the
key players in the case,
- Identify what professional knowledge they have that would be pertinent
(and what more they need to know),
- Determine possible courses of action and
- Hypothesize as to the possible outcomes of those plans.
What is the case like?
The case is in the form of a story, presented as a series of scenes along a timeline, and accompanied by a number of ancillary materials. Presentation will be through the use of text and still images. In addition, URLs to different sites on the Internet are provided within the case to provide additional content materials.
There are audio and video files in the case. Your web-browsing tool will then need to be configured with appropriate helper applications. Click here for information on helper applications and web browsers.
