This dissertation examines the issue of academic preparation of future professional instructional designers in the context of higher academic institutions. It is presented in nontraditional dissertation format as approved by the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Iowa State University. The dissertation is comprised of three publishable journal articles that would represent Chapters 2, 3 ...

A remarkable shift of what technologies may offer particularly mobile, wireless and sensor-based ones, i. e. a SF like environment in which ubiquitous and pervasive technologies provide for opportunities only imagined before, e. g. Ubiquitous Computing and Ubiquitous Learning has taken place in the last decade. We introduce here the first version of our generic ulearning scenario, as an importa...

The emergent requirements for effective e-learning calls for a paradigm shift for instructional design. Constructivist theory and semiotics offer a sound underpinning to enable such revolutionary change by employing the concepts of Learning Objects. E-learning guidelines adopted by the industry have led successfully to the development of training materials. Inadequacy and deficiency of those me...

In this paper we propose to extend the ADDIE (Analysis – Design – Development – Implementation – Evaluation) process for Instructional Systems Design (ISD) with a new linguistic layer. This layer allows developers to provide instructors with domain-specific languages to support and guide them through ISD. Instructors use the toolsets associated with these languages to produce technology-enhance...

Introduction "Long long ago, when wishing still could lead to something, there lived a king whose daughters all were beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, who has seen so many things, simply marveled every time it shone on her face." (Grimms' Fairy Tales, No.1, The Frog King) From this brief snippet of a fairy tale and its title, we already know and understand much o...