Best Practices In Instructional Design Podcast
As Instructional Designers we’re always looking for ways to engage our audience, whether that’s a student or a Subject Matter Expert. Let’s face it, it’s often difficult for someone who teaches a subject to step back and consider that there might be a more effective way to communicate the information they are so passionate about. And change… it’s hard.
But the world is changing more and more quickly every day, and technology keeps evolving which just brings more change, and on and on, around and around we go. Not to mention the fact that in the past decade or two we’ve learned so much about how the brain functions when it learns and how it likes to learn. But that’s not the road I’d like to travel down today.
No, today we’re looking at various ways to engage Subject Matter Experts (SME) as they work through online course design.
The Course Design Institute (CDI) is a twelve week course design cycle for instructors who would like to bring a course into an online learning environment. Many best practices in course design are the same whether in person or online, however for twelve weeks an Instructional Designer (ID) is paired with a SME to collaborate on course design. The ID is the SME of best practices in transfer of information in online learning and the SME brings the learning material assessments and their vision for the course. This twelve week collaboration is all about the SME stepping into the role of student as they learn about advances in learning research, technology, accessibility, and work together to create an amazing course that lines up with the expectations of Quality Matters to result in a first class, engaging, course.
Each of the twelve weeks focuses on a step of the process, and to help reinforce conversations with their ID and introductions to concepts and tools a podcast was written to support the content for each week. It’s like a mini course in Instructional Design! Curious? Select the link below to check them out.
Brain-centric Design The Power of Discussions Interview with a SME Rubrics, Assignments & Assessments Arduous Accessibility Checking Quality does Matter