Elizabeth McAlister

Tag: Case Study

  • Case Study – Honest Ally Food International RFP

    Fall 2019: This was a group project for a course on Universal Design for Learning. In this assignment, Honest Ally Food International put out a Request for Proposal for a program to promote strategies aimed at addressing food insecurity. 

    Previous group projects were done via email or in-person. For this one, we utilized our group discussion area in Canvas (separate area from the class group discussion) and used Canvas’s Collaboration function to work on the project in Word Online.

    My partners for this project were Christina Warren and Debbie Graves.

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  • Case Study – Cross Cultural Design

    Nov 16, 2019: A case study on cross cultural challenges in instructional design for a course on Universal Design for Learning.

    Case study citation: Spannaus, T. W., & Jones, T. S. (2014). Case Study 20. Iris Daniels: Cross-Cultural Challenges in Designing Instruction. In Ertmer, P., Quinn, J., & Glazewski, K. The ID casebook : Case studies in instructional design (Fourth ed. pp. 190-193). Boston: Pearson.

    The assignment was to answer these questions:

    1. How was the design process beginning with the initial design of the Web-Based Training to the proposed elements of the prototype influenced by the different backgrounds of the consortium members?
    2. Evaluate Jim and Iris’s approach to handling cultural differences among consortium members.
    3. Critique the elements of the prototype proposed by Iris, Jim, and Kimberly. What would you add or eliminate, if anything? Explain.
    4. What outcomes might Iris expect from the demonstration of the prototype?
    5. What steps should a designer take to prepare for working on a cross-cultural team?

    Professor feedback was that she loved my response to question 3 and that I could have said more on question 4.

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