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

*Infographic designed by the ASU Online Instructional Design Team