Abstract

This research study provides a comparative understanding of instructional design e-practice in an Australian and an American university. This comparative study identifies information relating to the current status of instructional design e-practice that will be of assistance to Australian universities to improve their existing online programs. The study investigated two universities using a quantitative methodological approach. Participants were students, lecturers and admins of one Faculty in an Australian university and one Faculty in an American university engaged with e-learning programs. The instructional design variables, namely clarifying expectations, personalization, learning scenarios, organizing resources and accuracy of materials were investigated for e-practice. The results showed that there were no significant differences in evaluation of the sub factors between Australian and American students and lecturers. American admins evaluated the sub factors of personalization, organizing resources, and accuracy of materials higher than Australians; however, Australian admins evaluated the sub factor of clarifying expectations higher than the Americans. The evaluations of instructional design practice and its sub factors were above average in general in both countries; however, the sub factor of organizing resources was evaluated as poor in the Australian sample and poor and average in the American sample. This indicates that this sub factor needs to improve in both countries. [For the complete proceedings, see ED579335.]

Citation

Sadeghi, S.H. (2017). E-Learning Instructional Design Practice in American and Australian Institutions. Presented at International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on E-Learning 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2023 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/189737/.

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Keywords

• Accuracy
• College Faculty
• College Students
• COMPARATIVE EDUCATION
• Course Content
• Educational Objectives
• Educational Quality
• Educational Strategies
• electronic learning
• Foreign Countries
• Individualized Instruction
• instructional design
• instructional materials
• online courses
• Questionnaires
• Statistical Analysis
• universities