Instructional Design
Course Description
Consider and use the systematic process of instructional design to create an instructional product, while engaging in activities that promote reflective practices, apply instructional design models in realistic contexts and employ a number of communications technologies.
In this course we will
- Discuss the historical development of the practice of instructional design with regard to factors that led to its development and the rationale for its use;
- Describe at least two reasons why instructional design models are useful;
- Identify at least six instructional design models and classify them according to their use;
- Compare and contrast the major elements of three theories of learning as they relate to instructional design;
- Define the word "systematic" as it relates to instructional design;
- Relate the design of instruction to the term "educational (or "instructional") technology";
- Describe the major components of the instructional design process and the functions of models in the design process;
- Provide a succinct summary of various learning contexts (declarative knowledge, conceptual, declarative, principle, problem-solving, cognitive, attitudinal, and psychomotor);
- Build an instructional design product that integrated major aspects of the systematic process and made it available on the web;
- Identify and used technology resources to enable and empower learners with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, and abilities;
- Apply state and national content standards to the development of instructional products;
- Meet selected professional standards developed by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology;
- Use various technological tools for instructional and professional communication;
