ESE 6939: Instructional Design
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Description:This course provides you with an introduction to the instructional design process. Instructional design bridges the gap between cognitive theories of learning and the practice of teaching. It presents a systematic plan for analyzing learners and environments, organizing and structuring information, and assessing learning for effectiveness. It is highly influenced by learning theory, yet allows designers the flexibility of utilizing various learning principles that match student needs as well as instructional goals. The instructional design process provides guidance to teachers and instructors and produces instruction that maximizes learning.
In this course, we will explore the main components of instructional design: establishing goals, analyzing learners, stating objectives, designing strategies, evaluating, and revising instruction. We will examine each of these components by systematically designing a unit of instruction. During the process, we will look at how the instructional design process can be adapted to meet the needs of any educational situation, including K-12, higher education, distance education, corporate training, military training, and the production of educational materials and technologies.
This course is designed to meet the needs of all types of educators. Instructional design is a skill that readily applies to all learning environments. Teachers, trainers, and college instructors who wish to learn the systematic process of designing instruction to maximize student learning will benefit from the information presented in this course.
Course Objectives:
- Describe the instructional design process, addressing its basic components, its history, and its relationship to learning theories and systems theory.
- Establish instructional goals when designing units, addressing the needs of the curriculum, the students, or a greater organization.
- Analyze learner characteristics so that instruction can be designed to meet the particular needs and abilities of students.
- State the instructional objectives for a unit so that each objective addresses the desired outcomes or instructional goal.
- Design instructional strategies that match multiple delivery methods and the stated objectives of the instructional unit.
- Design and select instructional materials according to their effectiveness for achieving a stated objective and their ability to meet the needs of learners.
- Design evaluation methods to assess learning before, during, and after instruction so that effective learning can be measured.
- Address the success of an instructional unit by evaluating the effect that each component of the process has on the desired outcome or goal.
