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Mueller, Chad M.; Richardson, Jennifer; Watson, Sunnie Lee; Watson, William – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative research study was to investigate how instructional designers perceive and experience conflict in their collaborative work with faculty across higher education settings. Prior research studies have captured instructional designers' perspectives on building and maintaining successful collaborations with faculty but…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Experience
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Janakiraman, Shamila; Watson, Sunnie Lee; Watson, William R. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2021
Environmental sustainability education should create eco-awareness and produce pro-environmental behaviors. Traditional instructional methods create eco-awareness but do not make people act. Purposefully designed digital games for attitudinal instruction provide cognitive knowledge, engage learners emotionally by showing the consequences of…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Environmental Education, Cooperative Learning
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Cheng, Zui; Watson, Sunnie Lee; Newby, Timothy James – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2018
While Open Digital Badges (ODBs) has gained an increasing recognition as micro-credentials, many researchers foresee the role of ODBs as an innovative learning tool to enhance learning experiences beyond that of an alternative credential. However, little research has explored this topic. The purposes of this paper are to 1) argue that one way to…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Higher Education, Educational Practices, Recognition (Achievement)
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Mueller, Chad; Lim, Jieun; Watson, Sunnie Lee – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2017
Knowing how to effectively design attitudinal change instruction for various learning settings is essential for instructional designers. However, the research on instructional design for attitudinal change instruction has been relatively dispersed and lacks cohesion, despite its increasing importance. The purposes of this paper are to (1) reignite…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Attitude Change, Instructional Design, Educational Principles
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Watson, William R.; Watson, Sunnie Lee – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2013
Higher education faces increasing pressures to change to better meet the needs of modern society. Systemic change applies systems thinking and systems theory to change a complex system to a new paradigm. This paper argues for the need for the systemic change of higher education and presents educational technologists as particularly well placed to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Systems Analysis, Educational Technology
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Watson, William R.; Watson, Sunnie Lee – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2007
The application of computers to education has a history dating back to the 1950s, well before the pervasive spread of personal computers (Reiser, 1987). With a mature history and varying approaches to utilizing computers for education, a veritable alphabet soup of terms and acronyms related to computers in education have found their way into the…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Computer Uses in Education, Expository Writing, Concept Formation