Research Methods in Instructional Technology

Course Deliverables

• Task 1 - Five Research Critiques on Instructional Application of Simulation
• Task 2b - Instructional Designers and Software Architects: Are Instructional Designers Software Architects in Disguise?
• Task 3 - Five Research Critiques on Instructional Application of Simulation

Boredom? Who's bored? Not me!

A paradigm is a model that exhibits a closed logic and thus resists change [. . .] To create change, you must challenge not only the models of unreality but the paradigms that underwrite them. Dangerous work. (Beer, 1988)

• Meta-analysis: Principles and procedures