As an instructional designer, have you been asked, “What do you do?” or “If that's all you do, what do we need you for?” This can happen when instructors are new or don’t understand the role of the instructional designer or the design process.
This presentation focuses on one of the oldest-major hurdles Instructional Designers face in designing online courses with instructors. In the consultative work we do, we come across resistance from instructors that are not interested in designing online classes for any number of reasons. To ease someone into designing an online course, a lot of creative skills come to play.
As an instructional designer, have you been asked, “What do you do?” or “If that's all you do, what do we need you for?” This can happen when instructors are new or don’t understand the role of the instructional designer or the design process.
This presentation focuses on one of the oldest-major hurdles Instructional Designers face in designing online courses with instructors. In the consultative work we do, we come across resistance from instructors that are not interested in designing online classes for any number of reasons. To ease someone into designing an online course, a lot of creative skills come to play.
The University of Utah's Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT) has used the Backwards Design approach to form a course design experience and provide legacy documentation. After two years of implementation, we feel we have an intuitive course mapping process that simplifies course design for not only the instructor and designer, but for any technologists, media producers and program coordinators involved.
TLT uses content mapping in all of its design consultations with instructors. It is designed to be an efficient way to allow the instructor to capture and document the entire course on an easy to use spreadsheet.
The content map aligns course goals, objectives and outcomes with course assessments. It is also a great way for the faculty to visualize the course content layout on paper. Other benefits TLT has observed with content mapping is for the handoff of a course to another instructor, coordinating with instructional technologist to build templates and content, and for media teams producing video materials.
The presentation will first address content mapping and the methodology behind the design. The presentation will also demonstrate how the Content Map is used and how it can be modified to fit any special or unique course requirement. The presentation will assist the audience in their course design work with instructors and also in streamlining their processes and procedures.