Portfolio Project

EDUC 765: Trends and Issues in Instructional Design

By: Tengku Mohd. Khairal Abdullah

Submitted [Date]
 Project Proposal – Module 2

PROJECT TITLE : REVIEWING CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN MANAGEMENT

SPONSORING ORGANIZATION
The Program of Magister Manajemen, Bina Nusantara University
The Program of Magister Manajemen is one of several post graduate program designed
at Master level in Bina Nusantara University. The MM Program in Blended Learning is
so far the only Master level program in Indonesia that offers its learning participants the
ability to pursue a Master-level program using blended learning mode. The MM
Program in Blended Learning operates under Binus Business School, which is a group
of programs which offer a major in business degree from undergraduate level until
doctoral. The vision of Binus Business School is “to be an internationally recognized
business school in the continuous pursuit of innovation in education”, while its mission is
“to be committed to implement innovative mindset in business education and research
to develop professionals who can meet the challenges of industries and society”.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This project is initiated towards improving the performance of students who are
registered in the program of MM Blended Learning which focus on producing a research
paper

AIM
The aim of this project is to increase the success rate of the two subjects of research
methodology in achieving its intended target of successful students’ research
publication.

TARGET AUDIENCE
Students who are registered for the program of Magister Manajemen in Blended
Learning.

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DELIVERY OPTIONS
This project will be delivered in blended learning modes, consist of three sessions of
synchronous video conference, and five sessions of asynchronous online learning
modes.

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 Front-End Analysis: Instructional Need – Module 3

INSTRUCTIONAL NEED

Beginning of the 2017, the Ministry of Higher Education in Indonesia established new
regulations requiring all of the Magister level students to produce a research paper
which is internationally published. As an adaptation to this regulation, the MM Program
developed two additional courses of Research Methodology to help students in
achieving this goal. There was one course of Business Research before the
implementation of the new regulation which designed to help students to do a simple
descriptive business research which would be useful for their decision-making process.
However, as a result of this new regulation, the course of Business Research could no
longer be sufficient in achieving the goal of publishing a research paper. This condition
has forced the MM Program to adjust its curriculum and offer two additional courses of
Research Methodology.

The implementation of these two courses was started in 2017 and since then, it has
been 8 batches that undergone the new curriculum. The results have been somewhat
not encouraging. Only 30% of students who managed to publish the research paper on-
time and most of them are students at the entry level (2 years of experience) at their
organization. Another 30% managed to publish the research at the end of their study
period. While the rest, need an extra one semester after they finished their study period,
and most of them publish the paper in local/ domestic journal. This project is needed to
improve the outcome of the above subjects.

Front-End Analysis: Learner Characteristics – Module 3

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LEARNER ANALYSIS

Primary Audience
 Students who are registered at the program of MM Blended Learning

General Learner Characteristics

 Young Executives at supervisory level in organization
 Middle level managers at managerial level in organization
 Senior managers in organization
 Director level in organization with more than 10-years of experience


Entry Characteristics
 First graduate with GPA no less than 3.00
 Executives with at least 2-years of working experience

CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS

Orienting Context
 Students should be able to produce a good-quality research paper and publish it
in international journal publication [What goals do the learners have for taking or
attending this course or instruction?]
 Students should be able to search for a good-quality literature and review them
to build a research framework
 Students should be able to propose a viable research design proposal
 Students should be able to conduct data collection and data analysis
 Students should be able to write a research paper based on the results of data
analysis

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Instructional Context
 Since both courses will be taught in blended learning mode, the instructional
context will be based on the setting of each individual home. Specifically for the
synchronous class usually held after office hours between 7pm to 9pm once a
week during weekdays.

Technology Inventory
 Students will have access to online journals and e-books through our online
library
 Students will need to install his/ her own statistical software package for data
analysis
 Students will need to have access to online survey application such as survey
monkey
 Students will have access to collaborative applications of Microsoft 365 provided
by the university for collaboration
 Students have the access to use ‘zoom’ for synchronous discussion

Transfer Context
 Each assignment is designed to fulfill specific aspect of journal publication so that
the end product itself will be in the form of research article that is ready to be
published
 The department of student publication will fully support the publication of the
research article such as through finding the appropriate publisher, providing a
proofreading service and also evaluation using Turnitin.
 The knowledge gained in this course will be useful for executives at managerial
level in order to make an informed decision-making activity based on careful and
rigorous research design

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 Instructional Impact Based Upon Learner Characteristics

APPLICATION OF LEARNING THEORIES

Since most of the learners’ characteristic consist of young executives and middle
managers, hence adult learning theory deem to be more appropriate in this setting. Two
theories are proposed which is the social constructivist theory and the theory of
minimalism. The theory of social constructivist will be applied on the many assignments
of this course. Students will be asked to make a group of three and develop research
publication related to their work/ job. This will add extra level of relevancy of this subject
to their daily working condition. This will also give additional reflection of the course
towards their job-related outcomes/ performance. The theory of minimalism will be
applied towards the content development of the course. Since the target audience of the
course will be young executives, middle-level managers, and also senior managers,
these people were assumed to be quite busy in their daily activities. Hence, they could
not afford to have lengthy content material to be studied. It would be much suitable for
them to have short-chunks of content material that directly explained what they need to
learn (absorb), do and reflect (connect) to achieve the learning objectives.

APPLICATION OF MOTIVATIONAL THEORIES

Two theories of motivation were considered to be suitable to be applied in this setting.
These theories are The Drive Theory, and the Theory of Endowed Progress Effect. The
Drive theory can be applied into the course by putting each session of the course to
have some sort of relatedness to the daily working experience of the learning
participants, especially by showing how the course will enhance the quality of the
students’ decision making capabilities whenever it was based upon rigorous research
effort. This condition hopefully will drive/ increase the motivation of the learning
participants to achieve good grades. The Theory of Endowed Progress Effect can be
applied into the course by making weekly scores of each learning participants in the

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form of competition. Specific types of reward might be prepared to the highest scoring
student groups and this might increase their drive to score high grades for each week.

IMPACT OF A DIVERSE AUDIENCE ON INSTRUCTION

Indonesia consists of hundreds of local tribes which majority are the indigenous people
of the nation. We are very famous for our high level of tolerance and normally
communicate with people with high level of consideration and very polite. I would like to
assume that the impact of diverse audience will be minimized in this course.

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 Goal and Task Analysis – Module 5
GOAL ANALYSIS

1. Identify at least three published peer-reviewed journal articles, and then select,
read, and summarize each work

2. Identify how each selected piece of literature created and defined the problem
statements, then compare and contrast those works and produce a publication
proposal document with an introduction proposing your introduction and problem
statement.

3. Your publication proposal should identify and explain ‘what’ your Dependent
Variables (DV) were in your chosen works, and how those DVs were being
influenced by other variables. Summarize this writing with a proposed theoretical
framework.

4. Identify a good and appropriate research topic that will eventually be treated as
Dependent Variable.

5. Identify the appropriate methodology for the proposed research and include an
explanation of this methodology in your publication proposal.

INSTRUCTIONAL GOAL

Beginning of the 2017, the Ministry of Higher Education in Indonesia established new
regulations requiring all of the Magister level students to produce a research paper
which is internationally published. As an adaptation to this regulation, the MM Program
developed two additional courses of Research Methodology to help students in
achieving this goal. There was one course of Business Research before the
implementation of the new regulation which designed to help students to do a simple
descriptive business research which would be useful for their decision-making process.
However, as a result of this new regulation, the course of Business Research could no
longer be sufficient in achieving the goal of publishing a research paper. This condition
has forced the MM Program to adjust its curriculum and offer two additional courses of
Research Methodology.

The implementation of these two courses was started in 2017 and since then, it has
been 8 batches that undergone the new curriculum. The results have been somewhat
not encouraging. Only 30% of students who managed to publish the research paper on-
time and most of them are students at the entry level (2 years of experience) at their

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organization. Another 30% managed to publish the research at the end of their study
period. While the rest, need an extra one semester after they finished their study period,
and most of them publish the paper in local/ domestic journal. This project is needed to
improve the outcome of the above subjects.

The aim is to increase the publication rate of students’ research

paper from MM Program from 30% to 80% within the next 3
batches of students.

TASK ANALYSIS METHOD

Two types of task analysis are possible at this stage, which is topic analysis (which is
usually being done in curriculum development in higher education), and procedural
analysis. For the purpose of this exercise, I will use procedural analysis. Based on the
Morrison, et.al (2019), Procedural Analysis consist of asking three main questions,
which is:
1. What does the learner do?
2. What does the learner need to know to do this step?
3. What cues (tactile, smell, visual, etc) inform the learner that there is a problem,
the step is done correctly, or a different step is needed?

TASK ANALYSIS

What does the learner What does the learner
do? need to know to do this
step?
What cues inform the
learner that there is a
problem, the step is done
correctly, or a different
step is needed?

Identify and select three 1. The difference 1. Items that good

pieces of good literatures between good and
and then read, summarize bad literature
and contrast/ contrast those 2. How to read and
literatures summarize literature
3. How to contrast and
compare the
literature
4. Thematic approach
in comparing/
contrasting
literatures
Identify the problem 1. What is a problem
literatures should
have
2. Items that bad
literature does not
have
3. Example/ template in
summarizing
literatures
4. Example/ template in
contrasting and
comparing literatures
1. Example of a

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 statement in each piece of
literature and describe how 2.
each author wrote it, and
then produce a partial
document proposing the 3.
part of introduction and
problem statement
4.
Produce a partial document 1.
explaining on ‘what’ the
Dependent Variable (DV)
is, and how the DV was 2.
being influenced by other
variables. Summarize this
writing with a proposed
theoretical framework 3.
4.
5.
6.
Identify a good and 1.
appropriate research topic
that will eventually be
treated as Dependent
Variable. 2.
3.
statement? summary on problem
The structure in statements
writing problems 2. Rubric on
statements. introduction part of a
Components of the literature
‘introduction’ part of 3. Rubric on problem
a literature statement part of a
Components of the literature
‘problem statement’
part of a literature
What is the main 1. Components of the
topic of Dependent main topic (DV)
Variable? which is presented in
The structure of the form of rubric
writing the main topic 2. Components of other
(DV) being written in factors that influence
the literatures the DV, which is also
Components of the presented in the
main topic (DV) that form of rubric
made up a good 3. A Template on
writing of the DV theoretical
The structure of framework
writing other factors
that influence the DV
being written in the
literatures
Components of
those other factors
that influence the DV
that made up a good
writing of those
factors
Components of
theoretical
framework
What can be defined 1. Components of good
as a good and and appropriate
appropriate research research topic, which
topic? is presented in the
The factor of form of rubric
‘relevancy’ in
selecting a research
topic
The factor of ‘data
availability’ in
selecting a research
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 topic
4. The factor of
‘problem’ (a gap that
exist between the
current state of affair
with the expected
ones) in selecting
research topic
Identify the appropriate 1. The five elements of 1. Example & template
methodology for the Research Design of proposed
proposed research and 2. The structure on how methodology
produced a partial these elements were 2. Example & template
document explaining it presented in the of sampling method
literatures and sample size
3. Sampling method 3. Example and
and sample size template of method
4. Method and and technique of
technique of data data collection
collection 4. Rubric

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 Instructional Objectives – Module 5

TERMINAL OBJECTIVES AND ENABLING OBJECTIVES

Domain: Cognitive
Terminal Objective: After completion of this module, students should be able to choose
a good and appropriate research topic with support from at least 80% of peer-reviewed
journal articles previously selected
 Students should be able to explain the factor of ‘relevancy’ regarding the topic
being selected
 Students should be able to explain the factor of ‘data availability’ regarding the
topic being selected
 Students should be able to explain the factor of ‘problem’ regarding the topic
being selected, based on his/ her readings of peer-reviewed journals

Domain: Cognitive
Terminal Objective: After completing this module, students should be able to formulate
research problem based on his/ her readings of peer-reviewed journal articles without
errors
 Based on his/ her readings of selected peer-reviewed journal articles, students
should be able to summarize previous research findings that stated that the
results are conclusively significant.
 Based on his/ her readings of selected peer-reviewed journal articles, students
should be able to summarize previous research findings that stated that the
results are inconclusive or non-significant

Domain: Cognitive
Terminal Objective: After completing this module, students should be able to write the
main topic/ Dependent Variable based on his/ her readings of peer-reviewed journal
articles without errors
 Students should be able to write the definition (both from dictionary as well as
literature/ conceptual definition) of the Dependent Variable
 Students should be able to write findings of previous researches regarding the
topic/ Dependent Variable, which showed to be conclusive/ significant
 Students should be able to write findings of previous researches regarding the
topic/ Dependent Variable, which showed to be inconclusive/ insignificant

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Enabling Objectives Matrix & Supporting Content – Module 6

Enabling Level on Bloom’s Learner Activity Delivery Method

Objective Taxonomy (What would (Group
learners do to presentation/lecture,
master this self-paced, or small
objective?) group)
 Students Create 1. The learner Self-paced activity with a
should be able should list three small group of three in
to explain the options of the which the group should
factor of possible topic of present/ show their
‘relevancy’ interest for his/ activity by the end of the
regarding the session
her research
topic being
selected 2. The learner
should create a
mapping to how
relevant those
three options
concerning his/
her job and give 1
to 5 rating
3. The learner
should give
rating/ scoring in
terms of the level
of impact that
such topic would
provide towards
his/ her job
especially in the
quality of decision
making

 Students should Create 4. The learner Self-paced activity with a

be able to should provide small group of three in
explain the rating/ scoring in which the group should
factor of ‘data terms of the present/ show their
availability’ availability of data activity by the end of the
regarding the and how easy/ session
topic being difficult the data
selected
would be

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 collected if any of
the topics would
be selected.

 Students should Create 5. The learner Self-paced activity with a

be able to should opt for small group of three in
explain the one of the three which the group should
factor of topics based on present/ show their
‘problem’ the rating/ activity by the end of the
regarding the scoring provided session. The three
topic being during the journals being referred to
selected, based should also be attached.
previous task
on his/ her
6. The learner
readings of
should look for
peer-reviewed
journals three (at least)
peer-reviewed
journal articles for
the specific topic
of their choosing
7. The learner
should identify
and presented for
each of the
selected journal
articles on how
the authors of
those journals
wrote the
'problem'

References

Carroll, J.M. (1990). The Nurnberg Funnel, Designing Minimalist Instruction for Practical
Computer Skill.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

Perez, G. (2014, March 21). Minimalism - Learning Theory. Retrieved May 23, 2020, from
https://prezi.com/abbm2vlfikw2/minimalism-learning-theory/ Links to an external
site.

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Pappas, C. (2016, May 21). 4 Tips To Use The Minimalist Theory In eLearning. Retrieved
May 23, 2020, from https://elearningindustry.com/4-tips-use-minimalist-theory-in-
elearning

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 Final Project Rubric

Please see the final project rubric and the reflection paper rubric within the course
content.

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