Week 11 Reflection

I think that the three contexts business, P-12 and higher education do have some similar themes when it comes to instructional design.  I think they are all looking to design student or employee centered instruction and training. However, each has different successes within their fields for different reasons. ID is very large in industrial and business settings as the training is better funded because the rewards are more profitable. With P-12 education it is and has been very student centered and often many packages of software and systems are remakes or clones that are not advancing ID. It did surprise me that Ed was one of the lowest implemented ID contexts. Funding is a big problem and yet  with NCLB and now the common core requiring students to be more college and job ready, I think industry and government need to provide funds and systems. Higher ed while student centered driven by faculty is where the innovation should come from. Research fellows who specialize in ID need to cultivate peer relationships and work to enhance and cultivate educational demands for students coming into this field.

I believe that P-12 education could learn from the business model by using ID systems and technology to train educators. There by generating more buy in by educators who in turn would become comfortable with technology and be willing to use the student centered technologies. I also would like Higher Ed to come into the schools especially during jobs fairs and college recruiting fairs to let students know that there are great careers in ID. There are opportunities within the higher ed system to do research and develop designs that really matter.