I posted a short update via Twitter for today, and can expand a bit here too.
Warning - it may be a bit rambling and disconnected as I'm right in the middle of thinking thorough it all, plus trying to figure out how I can make it work for my dissertation.
A bit of background...I'm in a learning technologies doctoral program and am employed full-time as a designer and technologist. I'm also part of a professional organization, AECT, that's home to folks in the same area of focus.
Over the past couple of years, I have been increasingly interested/obsessed with the notion of instructional designers and technologists in the open education discussion. Similar to librarians, they are often in direct contact with faculty and can have influence on course design (or at least offer input on course design :)
To help with this, I'm taking the Creative Commons certificate course, starting in July. whoot! I am also interested in remixing content from a few sources: the Becoming an open educator course, the Librarians as Open Education Advocates book, and some of the resources from this course to put together some type of resource. I am also interested in conducing a research study that gauges designers' perceptions and understandings of open education. I'm also interested in how open ed is represented (if at all) in ID graduate programs, and how new grads experience OER in their work with instructors. Ultimately, I'd like to make the case to show that the traditional ID models need to be revised to reflect the need to include OEP, but I am a long ways from that. One of my goals for my doctoral program is to figure this out over the summer, so hopefully I will have more concrete paths going forward in a couple of months, and will be able to more clearly articulate what's swirling around in my head.
