Agency of the instructional designer: Moral coherence and transformative social practice

Katy Campbell; Richard Schwier; Richard Kenny; Richard Kenny

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 21, No. 2 (Jan 01, 2005)

In this paper we propose a view of instructional design practice in which the instructional designer is an agent of social change at the personal, relational, and institutional levels. In this view designers are not journeymen workers directed by...

Language: English

Instructional designers' observations about identity, communities of practice and change agency

Richard Schwier; Katy Campbell; Richard Kenny; Richard Kenny

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 20, No. 1 (Jan 01, 2004)

We presume that models and theory in instructional design inform professional practice, but theory has not been consistently built from the professional experiences of instructional designers. This study draws on the observations of five...

Language: English

An Investigation of the Change Agency and Professional Identity of Instructional Designers

Richard Schwier; Katy Campbell; Richard Kenny

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 2455–2459

Instructional designers play an important role in the design and development of instructional products and programs. Instructional designers are also significant agents in changing the way traditional colleges and universities implement their...

Topics: Instructional Design, Change

The multivariate nature of agentic instructional design: Self as moral actor

Katy Campbell; Rick Schwier; Richard Kenny

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 15–21

This paper presents the results of three years of exploratory work culminating in an emerging, descriptive "agentic model of practice" as an interpretive lens on instructional designers' daily practice in universities and four-year colleges. We...

The Critical, Relational Practice of Instructional Design in Higher Education: An Emerging Model of Change Agency

Katy Campbell; Richard A. Schwier; Richard F. Kenny

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 57, No. 5 (October 2009) pp. 645–663

This paper offers an emerging interpretive framework for understanding the active role instructional designers play in the transformation of learning systems in higher education. A 3-year study of instructional designers in Canadian universities...

Conversation as Inquiry: A Conversation with Instructional Designers

Katy Campbell; Richard A. Schwier; Richard F. Kenny

Journal of Learning Design Vol. 1, No. 3 pp. 1–18

Instructional designers regularly engage in a process of professional and personal transformation that has the potential to transform the culture of institutions through faculty-client relationships. Instructional designers promote new ideas and...

A Review of What Instructional Designers Do: Questions Answered and Questions Not Asked

Richard Kenny; Zuochen Zhang; Richard Schwier; Katy Campbell; Katy Campbell

Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 31, No. 1 (Feb 15, 2005)

The purpose of this literature review was to determine what evidence there is that instructional designers apply ID Models, as well as to establish what other activities and processes they might use in their professional activities. Only ten...