Preventing Racism in Instructional Design: Restructuring Mnemonic Devices for Designers

This research poster discusses how instructional designers can repurpose mnemonic devices as instructional design (ID) tools to modify and present abbreviations through graphic organizers to support and facilitate a more socially conscious design process. Cal State Fullerton’s JEIE, Project Inkblot’s D4D, and ethnic studies’ four I’s of oppression are three abbreviations explored, with ‘D4Daudience’ being a new, proposed portmanteau to tack onto D4D as a memory aid to further help designers recall the five core questions D4D explores. These three abbreviations are additionally presented in the research poster as graphic and evidence organizers to provide instructional designers visually structured resources in addition to mere memorization of these ID mnemonics. This poster emphasizes the importance of creativity and adaptability in the ID process and offers mnemonics as a traditional tool that has malleability to be incorporated into ID’s digital, technological advancements through construction of graphic organizers as mnemonic design supplements.