Practical Instructional Design Principles to Improve Your Course
This track, led by Theodore Stone with the support of colleagues from The Center for Support of Instruction (CSI), Course Development, and CTL, focuses on the use of practical instructional design principles that can aid faculty in improving the design of their presentations, conferences, and assignments. Faculty will learn how to adapt some of the techniques from professional instructional designers and apply them to their own courses. Topics will include understanding the issues involved with producing effective faculty writing, improving step-by-step instructions for assignments, and how to design more effective conferences. Some principles from the Maryland Course Redesign Initiative will also be shared with faculty.
Objectives for this track:
- To identify different categories of learning outcomes through the use of a case study
- To recognize learner outcomes using learning theories and instructional design models
- To analyze writing from an instructional design perspective for readability, audience and voice
- To apply principles of instructional design, such as task and audience analysis, for developing effective assignment instructions
- To critique and modify conference threads based on the application of instructional design principles
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Practical Instructional Design Principles to Improve Your Course