A Designer’s Log Case Studies in Instructional Design- P9: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 | CASE STUDY 2 Beating the Clock Case Characteristics Table 4 Characteristics of the subject matter expert No. of K K GO Gender Rank Reason Time Availability sessions Design DE SO F AST O 1 1 6 12 2 Gender female Rank AST assistant Reason O organisational Time-to-delivery 1 course already begun or is about to begin Availability 1 minimally available 1-15 hrs Number of sessions 6 Knowledge of Design 1 low level Knowledge of DE 2 has never offered distance courses General Obj. Specific Obj. 2 GOs only Case 2 is similar to Case 1 with three differences the professor is a she not a he the course start date is one and a half months away instead of four to six and the number of working sessions ended at six. This professor already had a course syllabus and had taught this course once before on campus. Considering the fact that she had approximately one and a half months before the course was to begin the professor anticipated our not being able to meet very often. Consequently we decided to get down to brass tacks. For my part I felt it would be best to be nondirective and try to restrict my involvement to answering her questions. Judging by these first two cases it looks like I am in for ongoing rapid design a euphemism for not having enough time to do the job right. Under normal circumstances a designer can expect six months to redesign a course and even that is a short amount of time. Ideally a year is not too long. To check my reasoning I consult with several fellow designers at other dual-mode universities they confirm that having at least two terms to design a course is not a luxury. So I m thinking if these cases are in any way representative of what s to come in this dual-mode university my design prototype will likely have to continue to evolve and evolve quickly to adapt to what thus far seems to be the way things are quoting the movie Babe. . Session 1 This time instead of asking the professor to go through the congruency and method presentations on her own I .
