The Osidious Project: For Instructional Designers & Courseware Developers (Essay Portion)

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Section I - Personal
These questions pertain to you as an individual.

1. What is your job title, and what are your responsibilities? Required Question

2. Please give a brief career history. Required Question

Section II - Goals
The following few questions pertain to the goals you set for yourself during a project, and the obstacles you face in fulfilling them.

3. In designing and developing courseware, what activities currently waste your time? Required Question

4. What makes a good day? A bad day? Required Question

5. What is an aspect of developing courseware in which you wish you had more help? Required Question

6. What helps you make decisions? Required Question

Section III - Organizations
These questions pertain to the makeup and group dynamics of your organization.

7. Where is your organization located? Required Question

8. Do you work from home? If so, do you live more than 100 miles from work? Required Question

9. What is the makeup of your team in terms of job titles? Required Question

10. What is the makeup of your team in terms of work skills? Required Question

11. What is the makeup of your team in terms of education? Required Question

12. How is work divided? Required Question

13. How do you communicate? Required Question

Section IV - Workflow
These questions pertain to the way in which work gets done.

14. What did you do when you first came in today? And after that? Required Question

15. What are the 5 most common things you do, and how often do you do them? Required Question

16. What is a problem that you commonly face, and how do you prefer to work around it? Can you conceive of a better solution? Required Question

17. What constitutes a typical day? What would be an unusual event? Required Question

Section V - Attitudes
These final questions pertain to your feelings about work, its content in general, and your career in particular.

18. What do you see yourself doing five years from now? Required Question

19. What is your favorite part of developing courseware, and what part drives you crazy? Required Question

20. What would you prefer not to do? What do you procrastinate on? Required Question

21. What excites you? Required Question

22. What is an email address where I can send you the results of my research? (optional)

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