What’s the Gap? Exploring Professionals’ Beliefs on KSAs needed On-the-Job & Coverage in ID Programs

• In Event: OTP - Learning Analytics and Performance Improvement

Short Description

This study will investigate the nature and extent of the gap between the skills and knowledge required by professional instructional designers, and those developed by graduate instructional design programs. Semi-structured interviews with in-practice professionals address the skills and knowledge perceived as important for their current jobs; topics that were under-emphasized within formal education; and professionals’ recommendations for improving instructional design education. Findings may be of interest to educators, researchers, and employers.

Authors

• Marisa Exter, Purdue University

• Terri S. Krause, Purdue University

• Anthony Randolph, Purdue University

• Iryna Ashby, Purdue University