For your students and you, instructional design is an integrated, sense-making method for creating successful learning opportunities. The sections below include information, videos and links to help you better understand how to design a potent, motivating syllabus.

Instructional Design

Instructional Design is the process of creating a learning environment that encourages and supports comprehension and knowledge-acquisition. Instructional design shapes the order and structure of the course while encouraging a professor's creativity in assignments and assessment.

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Know Your Students

One of the first steps in Instructional Design is to know who will be taking the class and learning the content. One teaches differently if the learners are getting credentials (a degree) after working in a field for years or are newcomers to the field who don't even know the vocabulary. A number of factors enter into this part of instructional design.

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Feedback for Learning

Feedback for learning can take many forms and be for both students and their instructor. The main goal is to discover what has or has not been learned and formulate a plan to improve learning for the rest of the course.

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Using Learning Technologies

Learning technologies are electronic methods of providing or enhancing learning. An added benefit for learning technologies is that many of them can provide a repository for turned-in assignments and assessments, save you time and (especially nice), save paper.

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