Instructional Design for Educators

Online teaching is happening! Explore the research and best practices necessary for quality online course design while gaining valuable feedback using the instructional design model, and discover the importance of curriculum development that emphasizes the congruence among course objectives, student evaluation, and instruction. Make your online classes more effective with Instructional Design for Educators, a course developed with higher education faculty in mind yet informed by pedagogical principles and standards that educators at all levels will recognize.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Identify and apply effective attributes of online learning and recognize how these often differ from the traditional classroom.
• Develop an initial plan for the online instruction of your course.
• Develop objectives, teaching strategies, and forms of assessment that are congruent.
• Evaluate the quality of course materials against recognized quality standards by organizations such as Quality Matters and the Online Consortium.