Background

The "instructional designer (IDer)" is indispensable for providing high quality courses and contents. IDer has special knowledge of course designing techniques and assists to plan and produces contents to satisfy potential learners' needs. IDer takes significant rolls for designing, executing and evaluating courses to assure learning efficiency. Training excellent IDer over the whole Asian countries will contribute in expanding e-Learning markets in Asia and promoting knowledge and skills of the targets.

The objective of this "WG3" is cultivating e-Leaning professionals for both corporate education and higher education. For that purpose, WG3 creates the system of skill and knowledge, develops educational programs, establishes authorizing systems of IDer qualification, and researches ID software tools. As the beginning phase, WG3 fosters the IDer who has general skill and knowledge commonly used around Asian countries. Then we train the advanced IDer who has special skills for sophisticated ID process for the blended learning style.

• Systematization of making the skill and knowledge maps required for international IDer qualification.
• Editing guidelines for methods of instructional design according to ID process (analyzing, designing, developing, executing, and evaluating), in response to the systematized maps.
• Inquiry and study on educational programs according to the systematized maps for standard and advanced IDer.

• Through email: exchanging information and discussion
• In-person meeting: one-day meeting is under consideration (before AEN conference December, 2003)
• Other activities: experimental studies of already distributed ID software tools and research for required specifications according to ID process, in response to the systematized maps.

Output Expectation, training the IDer for both higher education and corporate training:


• International inquiry report of noteworthy examples in Western countries.
• Needs inquiry report in Asian countries.
• Systematized skill and knowledge maps required for standard IDer qualification.
• Guidelines for methods of instructional design according to the standard ID process in response to the systematized maps.
• Inquiry report and proposal of educational curriculums for training the standard IDer.