从用户到顾问:教学设计人员在当前在线教学中所担当的“新角色”(英文)

本文讨论了教育技术的专业实践如何影响教学设计师的角色。技术前景的动态本质使得教学设计师的工作复杂化,使得他们在应用所学的系统设计模式时有着很大的困难。目前,教学设计师在帮助机构有效采用教育技术方面担当着更加多样的、精细的角色。在假定这些新角色的基础上,教学设计人员应当跨越自身的舒适区,不仅仅是与学科专家合作的设计人员,或者是第一个吃螃蟹使用技术的人,而是真正成为绩效专家,协调机构内的不同力量。

From Consumers to Consultants: Instructional Designers' "New" Roles in Online Teaching

This paper discusses how the professional practice in educational technology has transformed the role of instructional designers,as they assist faculty members in the higher education setting.The dynamic nature of the technology landscape has complicated their work that caused great difficulty for them to apply the systems design models that they have been taught to use.Instructional designers are now playing more diverse and subtle roles to help institutions effectively adopt educational technologies.In assuming these new roles,they should look beyond their comfort zone as designers working with subject matter experts,or first adopters of technologies to actually become human performance consultants to orchestrate various forces in the institution.