Review the Instructional Design Team Role
Ways Your Instructional Design Team Can Assist You
What is an instructional design team? Your team supports you throughout the development of your online course. Their goal is to make online course development easier for faculty, as well as to make acquiring knowledge more efficient, effective, and appealing for students. Below are 15 ways your instructional design team can assist you.
Help identify what you want students to do/know at the end of the course (course and unit objectives), how you are going to know when they’ve learned, and what kinds of activities support students in learning
Help promote academic integrity by providing solutions through pedagogy, technology, and community building
Provide tutorials and tips on using the course management system to teach online
Share examples of instructional strategies used in other courses and programs
Provide a second pair of eyes to identify potential issues
Help define criteria for graded work
Provide a sounding board for ways to improve courses
Help ensure course accessibility
Provide a student perspective
Serve as a liaison for video and other media development
Identify ways to encourage collaboration and build community
Help identify technology to support your learning objectives
Consult on course structure and organization
Provide expertise on integrating innovative tools for learning
Help keep course development on track