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With the increase in demand for online education at the university level has also come the “recognition that in order to be effective, such programs cannot simply be on-line replicas of the instruction delivered in classrooms” (Reiser, 2001, p. 64). An environment of collaboration with a shared vision is needed to bring faculty expertise together with online learning design and technological expertise. This article addresses why and how instructional designers should lead the way.
Sandra Kay Brigance (2011) studied this question.