Faculty Profiles

Dr. Sunnie Lee Watson teaches and conducts scholarly work in the field of attitudinal learning and the learner-centered paradigm of education.

Her areas of research focus are:

• Attitudinal learning and mindset change in both formal and informal educational settings.
• Learner-centered online instruction using innovative educational technologies.
• Critical systems thinking for educational change.
+ Education
• 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)
+ Experience
• 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
+ Professional Memberships
• AERA
• AECT
• CIES

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