Examining the Prior Knowledge of Instructional Design Practitioners Studying Visual Methods at the Master's Level

• In Event: Poster Session 5
  In Poster Session: Exploring Affordances of Design and Technology in Education

Abstract

Visual methods for designing are a mainstay in many fields where design is practiced, but are little used in instructional design (Stubbs & Gibbons, 2007). Investigators sought to inform design pedagogy by examining the artifacts, reflections and discussions of nine students taking a masters level course in visual methods from the perspective that design students are not blank slates characterized primarily by the knowledge or skills that they lack (Author1 et al., 2015). The students are shown to be extending their existing use of visual methods and applying their everyday experience of visual culture to those methods, needing primarily consciousness of their practice and confidence in skills most of them didn’t realize they had.

Authors

• Elizabeth Boling, Indiana University

• Colin M. Gray, Purdue University