Where did start at??

In the discussion: "Performing an analysis of FET5601 - theory into practice... " initiated by course facilitator Reushle, Shirley under the heading:

USER/LEARNER/LEARNING CONTEXT ANALYSIS - Who are/were the learners?

She wrote:

Student evaluations also revealed that two main groups of learners were emerging:

• Those at the postgraduate (construction – dialogue) level who are looking for ways to assimilate instructional design principles that underpin their approach to instructional design, a chance to debate, consider alternative approaches
• Those at the conceptualization level who are looking for templates, recipes, definitive examples of how to “do” instructional design (McKendree et al. 1997; USQ Student Evaluations data 2000).
• Those who are between both stages.

Where did I start is my question? Initially floored by the topic, I thought I started at the conceptualisation level (or even before that!) . However, now I am not so sure, I have been at the first stage for a while, looking for ways to assimilate ID principles, but the formal side was missing...so I suppose that puts me in the middle, or out to the side...

Chris :-)