The next CIDER Session is Friday, December 2, 2005, 11:00 a.m. MST (1:00 p.m. EST) with Transforming Higher Education: Towards an Agentic Model of Instructional Design by Katy Campbell, University of Alberta, and Rick Kenny, Athabasca University. In this session, Katy and Rick will discuss their research program to explore the concept of instructional designers as agents of social change. They will describe the rationale for their study, discuss the research design, and argue for narrative inquiry as an alternative methodology for research in educational technology and distance education. They will conclude the session by presenting an emerging “agentic model”, in which the instructional designer in HE is seen as an agent of sociocultural change and transformation in a socially-constructed process at the interpersonal, personal, professional, institutional and societal levels. Rick and Katy will use stories of practice chosen from their collaborative conversations to illustrate the components of this model.
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