Course Description

Helps students analyze, apply, and evaluate principles of instructional design to develop education and training materials spanning a wide range of knowledge domains and instructional technologies. Focuses on variety of instructional design models, with emphasis on recent   contributions from cognitive science and related fields. This course is designed to teach the fundamentals of instructional design, including the principles of learning theory and instructional strategies that are relevant to instructional design. Students will learn the purpose and approach to completing each phase of the instructional design process and will produce a set of outputs from each of these phase in accordance with the requirements specified in a final course project.

  

Professional Standards

The following standards from the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction (IBSTPI) were covered in this course:

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• Professional foundations

  • 1. Communicate effectively in visual, oral and written form

• Planning and analysis

  • 6. Conduct a needs assessment in order to recommend appropriate design solutions and strategies

  • 7. Identify and describe target population characteristics

  • 8. Select and use a variety of techniques for determining instructional content

  • 9. Analyze the characteristics of the environment

    • a. Analyze the characteristics of existing and emerging technologies and their use in an instructional environment

    • b. Reflect upon the elements of a situation before finalizing design solutions and strategies

• Design and development

  • 10. Select and use a variety of techniques to define and sequence the instructional content and strategies

  • 12. Design Instructional Interventions

    • e. Design instruction that reflects an understanding of the diversity of learners and groups of learners​

  • 14. Select or modify existing instructional materials

  • 15. Develop instructional materials

• Evaluation and Implementation

  • 17. Evaluate and assess instruction and its impact

  • 19. Provide for the effective implementation of instructional products and programs

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The following standards from the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) Entry-level Competencies were covered in this course:

• Foundational Competencies: Business Management

  • Uses data from a variety of sources to analyze needs and propose sound solutions

  • Plans and implements assignments to achieve goals by creating action plans and ensuring completion   

 

 

Artifacts and Reflections from Course

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