RETHINKING THE COMPETENCIES OF INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNERS AS INFORMATION ARCHITECTS

In this paper, the author depicts how the work of the instructional designers can be
re-thought within the framework of information architecture. The paper briefly
provides an overview of the main definitions of the information architect along with
the major information architecture designs by describing the changing landscape in
more detail from the perspective of the Articulation theory. It then moves into a
discussion of the similarities between an information architect and an instructional
designer. The paper concludes that the instructional designers should adopt a
multidisciplinary perspective in order to design effective learning spaces and that
there must be a link between the information architecture and the previously unarticulated
disciplines in order to develop a disciplinary identity of instructional
designers.