11036

11036

General Session - Conference Presentation Only (no formal paper)

Instructional Systems Design and Project Management: A Complementary Relatoinship
Cheng-Chang (Sam) Pan, University of Texas at Brownsville, Brownsville, Texas, USA, Sam.Pan@utb.edu

This study is intended to explore a complementary relationship between instructional systems design (ISD) and project management in an attempt to build a plausible case for integrating project management as a distinct course in the core of the graduate instructional systems design programs. It is argued that ISD and project management should form a symbiosis in a hope for instructional designers to create values for customers. An integrated view of ISD and project management is proposed using three concepts of project management as a bridge for the integration. They are (a) project charter, (b) Gantt charts, and (c) the critical path method. Challenges for the proposed view are also mentioned.

All Audiences Instructional systems design project management instructional technology