Designing online delivery through educational design research

Abstract

This paper reports on an early-stage educational design research project to develop scalable online delivery at a higher education institution with relatively low maturity with digital learning. This involves not only an intervention aimed at transforming the curriculum and teaching practices, but also considers the broader set of institutional services that support students and faculty. The paper introduces the substantive problem in context, reviews existing design principles in the literature on high-quality online delivery and provides an overview of the emerging intervention design. This ‘whole-of-institution’ scope is fairly novel for educational design research, and the paper closes with a reflective analysis of using educational design research for this type of project.