A Designer’s Log Case Studies in Instructional Design- P5:This book deals with the design of distance education at an emerging dual-mode university, that is, a university offering courses both on-campus and via distance education or online in a variety of manners. It was written from the point of view of an instructional designer (ID) working alongside university professors in designing their courses for distance delivery | The Case Studies Introduction to the case studies The following ten case studies represent the first professors also called subject matter experts or SMEs out of a total of forty-four faculty members to have implemented the instructional design model prototype hereafter simply called the model at the university where the study was conducted. As the design work took place over a period of roughly three years lessons learned during the design process of the first courses served to gradually transform the model as other professors participated in the design or redesign process of their courses. The model was thereby validated through actual user experience in the field. Modifications were made to anchor the model in the current and complex realities of academic life in an emerging dual-mode university. NB. As I advance through each case study I stop to reflect on various critical incidents Flanagan 1954 as they occur. Entitled Metareflections you will find them in the order they arose during my working sessions for that case in boxes such as the one below. Meta-reflections The content in these sections are in italics drawn from entries I made in my logbook during the progress of my work with professors. Immediately after each session I d write up a report on items covered decisions made and so on and expand on any notes I d jotted down. The demographic and professional characteristics of individual faculty members Sample selection and faculty characteristics Sample selection was based on faculty meeting the following criteria they were full-time professors at an emerging dual-mode university they were all in Humanities Education Music Languages Law they were preparing one of their courses for off-campus delivery and they agreed to implement the proposed instructional design model prototype henceforth the model . Various characteristics of the ten faculty members who participated in this study were identified as being highly descriptive of the context of this study see
