Online learning and instructional design: formative expectations of learners


The different contexts of education - both related to the university context, to teacher training, and to different professional figures - have been going through a profound change in the ways not only of delivery and fruition of online training content. A debate, the one related to instructional design, reinvigorated and revitalized by the health emergency and linked, for example, to processes of emergency remote teaching and growing demands for methodological and instructional rethinking. The paper presents an analysis of the results of a survey given to participants in online training courses (201 involved learners, 161 respondents). In detail, the respondents were identified from among the participants (members, affiliates, etc.) in the training courses organized by Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca e l’Intervento nella Psicopatologia dell’Apprendimento (AIRIPA), thereby involving different professional and promoting a “transdisciplinary alliance” to instructional design. The methodology is based on the mixed methods.