The Prevalence of Cognitive Apprenticeships in Instructional Designer Onboarding

• In Event: OTP - Instructional Design and Cognitive Apprenticeships

Short Description

Onboarding is the process of helping new employees learn organizational culture as well as details related to performance expectation. Strategies used during onboarding include coaching, modeling, and just-in-time training. Many of these strategies can be found within a cognitive apprenticeship instructional framework. This study explored the extent to which organizations use cognitive apprenticeships to onboard new instructional designers.

Authors

• Kaye Rabel, Old Dominion University

• Jill Stefaniak, Old Dominion University