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Sunnie Watson
Professor of Learning Design and Technology; Assistant Dean for Diversity and Global Engagement
Learning Design and TechnologyCurriculum and Instruction
Dr. Sunnie Lee Watson teaches and conducts scholarly work in the field of learner-centered paradigm of education. Her areas of research focus on attitudinal learning and mindset change for social justice in both formal and informal educational settings, learner-centered online instruction and innovative educational technologies, and critical systems thinking for educational change.
- Ph.D. — Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University (2008)
- Ph.D. — Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University (2008)
- M.Ed. — Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University (2005)
- B.A. — Educational Technology, Ewha Woman’s University (2001)
- 2023 – Present
Professor and Assistant Dean of Diversity and Global Engagement
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
- 2018 – 2023
Associate Professor
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
- 2016 – 2018
Assistant Professor
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
- 2015
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
- 2012 – 2015
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
- 2008 – 2012
Assistant Professor
Department of Educational Studies
Teachers College, Ball State University
- 2004 – 2008
Associate Instructor
Department of Instructional Systems Technology
School of Education, Indiana University
- 2004 – 2005
Corporate Instructional Designer
Marsh, McDonald’s, Walgreens, BearingPoint, Accenture Projects, WisdomTools, Inc.
- 2003 – 2004
Instructional Design and Technology Consultant
Instructional Consulting and Technology Services, School of HPER, Indiana University
- 2001 – 2003
Secondary English Teacher
Yungduk High School, South Korea
- 2000 – 2001
Instructional Designer & Consultant
Solve-It Media Inc., South Korea
Selected Publications
- Mueller, C. M., Richardson, J., Watson, S. L., & Watson, W. (2022). Instructional designers’ perceptions & experiences of collaborative conflict with faculty. TechTrends, 66(4), 578-589.
- Watson, W. R., Watson, S. L., Koehler, A. A., & Oh, K. H. (2022). Student profiles and attitudes towards case-based learning in an online graduate instructional design course. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 1-23.
- Duan, S., Watson, S. L., & Newby, T. (2022). Novice instructional designers’ attitudes towards the best possible self activity and the correlation with personality and subjective well-being. TechTrends, 1-14.
- Janakiraman, S., Watson, S. L., Watson, W. R., & Newby, T. (2021). Effectiveness of digital games in producing environmentally friendly attitudes and behaviors: A mixed methods study. Computers & Education, 160, 104043.
- Watson, S. L., Yu, J. H., Alamri, H., & Watson, W. R. (2020). Preservice teachers’ technology integration attitude change in a course implementing digital badges. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 28(1), 89-116.
- Lee, D., Watson, S. L., & Watson, W. R. (2019). Systematic literature review on self-regulated learning in massive open online courses. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 35 (1).
- Watson, S.L., *Watson, W.R. & *Tay, L. (2018). The development and validation of the Attitudinal Learning Inventory (ALI): A measure of attitudinal learning and instruction. Educational Technology Research & Development. 66(6), 1601-1617. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-018-9625-7.
- Watson, S.L. (2017). An exploratory case study of the instructional design of an animal behavior and welfare MOOC for attitudinal learning. Open Learning. 262-278.
- Watson, S.L., Watson, W.R., Yu, J.H., Almari, H., & Mueller, C. (2017). Learner profiles of attitudinal learning in a MOOC: An explanatory sequential mixed methods study. Computers & Education 114. 274-285.
- Mueller, C., Lim, J. & Watson, S.L. (2017) First principles of attitudinal change: A review of principles, methods and strategies. Techtrends. 61(6), 560-569.
- Watson, S. L., Loizzo, J., Watson, W. R., Mueller, C., #Lim, J., & Ertmer, P. (2016). Instructional design, facilitation, and perceived learning gains: An exploratory case study of a human trafficking MOOC for attitudinal change. Educational Technology Research and Development, 64(6), 1273-1300.
- Watson, S. L., Watson, W. R., Richardson, J. & Loizzo, J. (2016). Instructor’s use of social presence, teaching presence and attitudinal dissonance: A case study of an attitudinal change MOOC. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning. 17(3), 54-74.
- Watson, S. L. & Park. G. (2015) Towards progressive and dynamic multicultural education: Teachers’ awareness of multicultural education in South Korean schools. International Journal of Education, 7(1), 57-74.
- Watson, S. L., & Reigeluth, C.M. (2013). Living the vision: A disadvantaged and marginalized alternative school’s perspective on school culture and educational change. International Journal of Education, 5(2), 53-74.
- Watson, S. L., *Watson, W. R. (2011). Critical, emancipatory and pluralistic research for education: A review of critical systems theory. Journal of Thought, 46(4), 63-77.
- Watson, S. L. (2011). Somebody’s gotta fight for them: A disadvantaged and marginalized alternative school’s learner-centered culture of learning. Urban Education, 46(6), 1496-1525.
- Watson, S. L. & Watson. W. R. (2011). The role of technology and computer based instruction in a Disadvantaged Alternative School’s Culture of Learning. Computers in the Schools, 28(1), 39-55.
- EDCI 51300 — Foundations of Learning Design and Technology: An Introduction to the Field
- EDCI 53100 — Learning Theories and Instructional Design
- EDCI 56400 — Integration and Management of Computers in Education
- EDCI 66000 — Learning Design and Technology Seminar
- EDCI 62700 — Current Topics in Learning Design and Technology
