Along with the increase in online courses offered by higher‐education institutions there is a corresponding increase in the number of instructional designers designing and developing these courses. A growing body of literature has emerged exploring the working relationship between instructional designers and faculty in designing online courses in higher education. The purpose of this study is to conduct an integrative literature review to gain a better understanding of the working relationships between faculty and instructional designers. The results provided insights as to how those two parties are working together in designing online courses, and they summarized the factors that affect their relationships. The literature specifically characterizes the relationship between the two parties as collaborative, although it neither defines the concept nor identifies the characteristics of collaboration. The study suggests exploring perspectives of faculty and administrators (who oversee the relationship) in future studies and suggests also that the concept of collaboration needs to be characterized more concretely and explicitly.

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一家特殊的中小企业：高等教育在线课程设计中教学设计师与教师之间关系的综合文献综述

随着高等教育机构提供的在线课程的增加，设计和开发这些课程的教学设计师的数量也相应增加。越来越多的文学作品探索了教学设计师和教师在设计高等教育在线课程中的工作关系。这项研究的目的是进行综合性文献综述，以更好地了解教师与教学设计师之间的工作关系。结果提供了关于这两个方面如何共同设计在线课程的见解，并且他们总结了影响他们之间关系的因素。文献专门描述了两方之间的合作关系，尽管它既没有定义概念，也没有确定协作的特征。该研究建议在未来的研究中探索教师和管理人员（负责这种关系的观点）的观点，并建议需要更具体和明确地描述协作的特征。