I guess I have some sort of built-in bias, because when I read the "debate" between Merrill and Wilson, I sided with Merrill. Maybe the bias is that I naturally want to side with someone who I've seen speak before, and someone who's well-respected in BYU's IPT department—or maybe I just agree that there ought to be standardization in our field (maybe we could have...ORANGE beanies!). I think Merrill's "proper study of instructional design" is very interesting. The same way web developers and computer science people have now made it so that anyone can publish a website, or even build their own computer programs, Merrill says that instructional designers should be building similar tools and frameworks to empower others to teach better. Now that would be open education, eh, Dr. Wiley?
In other news, Merrill may have given me guidance on what kind of project I could do for my Master's Degree. And in a way, it's kinda cool that many corporate instructional design jobs overlap heavily with project management and business stuff. Maybe I'd enjoy that?
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