Industry Portfolio Project
Introduction
This assignment requires you to gather and organize a comprehensive collection of materials/information relevant to a specific topical area. The final product will consist of a web-ready electronic portfolio and a 2-4 page reflective statement.
For this project you should investigate one of the following settings:
- Business and Industry
- Military Instructional Design
- Training Development in Health Care
- Integration of Technology in K-12
- Instructional Technology in Higher Education
- Distance Education Delivered Internationally
On or before Week 2, email me your top three setting choices. Please list the choices in priority order. Settings will be assigned on a first-come first-serve basis.
You are welcome to work on the portfolios individually or in teams of two. More than one person and/or team can research a given topic as long as each setting is addressed during the course.
The Scenarios
- Option One
You and a group of your friends have opened an Instructional Design firm. The business consultant hired to review your business plan notes that the firm has little tangible evidence of its skills and services.
To address this issue the team decides to develop industry based portfolios. Since the products will be placed on the company Website as marketing tools, you not only need to provide information about the industry (based on the questions defined on this site), you also need to demonstrate your instructional design skills.
To see the form that Option 1 projects might take, click on the following links.
- Hard Rock Academy (the authors make no claim of being associated with the Hard Rock Cafe or any of it's subsidiaries) was developed by Grace Judge and Ali Ryan for a fictitious distance education development firm. The product was created with Dreamweaver and Photoshop.
- In this case Xenro Technologies (a fictitious company) just received their first military contract. This product was developed in Dreamweaver by Beverly Green.
- Option Two
As a senior instructional design student or industry mentor you have been asked to develop a tool that would assist new IT students, faculty or staff understand the ID issues associated with their chosen industry. Your audience assessment identified a number of questions that need to be addressed and understood by the junior team members. The assessment also notes that one of the best ways to present the data is to lead by example – using sound instructional design principles that are appropriate for the target audience.
Click on the following links to view tutorials developed by your peers based on this scenario.
- TECH-KNOWledgee! was developed by Robert Jones and Malika Vaughn utilizing Dreamweaver and Photoshop. The purpose of the the product is to increase faculty support for Professional Development by determining the resources the instructional designer will need to facilitate effective in-service programs through the use of current technologies.
- The Training Technology Reference Tool was developed by Gina Schlesinger for Training Specialists in the School of Medicine Training Department (SOMTD) at the University of Pennsylvania. The product was developed utilizing Power Point and Photoshop.
- Welcome to the Big League: Instructional Design in Business and Industry was developed by Tonia Forlani and Chris Knoth for Instructional Technology students.The team developed the product in Dreamweaver.
- Option Three
Design your own scenario. If you choose this option you must submit an outline of your project to the instructor prior to starting your design.
The following are selected Option 3 projects developed by your peers.
- Information Technology's Impact on Information Literacy in Higher Education: The Library's Role was developed by Christine Herz as a tool for the Information Literacy Initiative at Gloucester County College. The product was developed utilizing Photoshop and FrontPage.
- Integration of Technology in Planetarium K-12 Education was developed by Ted Williams as a resource tool for Planetarium Directors. FrontPage 2000 was used to develop the product.
- Technological Advancements in Multimedia for Healthcare Focus: Research and Development of Intranet Based Educational Programs. This case study was developed in Power Point by Amelia Kwiatkowski.
Content Guidelines
Critical to a good portfolio of this type is content. The information contained in the portfolio - its purpose, usefulness, and facts - should demonstrate your range, ability, and understanding of the organizational setting. Each of the settings requires that a unique set of questions be addressed, do not answer the questions in isolation but use them as a guide in developing an overall picture of the field.