The Instructional Design team provides services to help faculty design quality face-to-face and online courses. Whether developing a new course or program, transitioning courses to an online format, ...

Auburn University has introduced 35 online programs over the last few years. To get them off the ground, in summer 2015 the Alabama public university set up an internal Auburn Online unit, currently ...

As coronavirus pushed campuses across the country to close, and college after college issued orders to resuscitate courses online, it became clear that faculty needed help, stat. Diann Maurer answered ...

When she joined the University of Delaware Division of Professional and Continuing Studies (UD PCS) digital learning team in 2016, Aviva Heyn had no idea how significant her work would become. One of ...

The College of Education & Human Development is introducing a new online graduate certificate in Instructional Design and Technology (GC-IDT). This 15-credit program, commencing in the Spring 2024 ...

Good listener. People person. Lifelong learner. Sound like you? No, we’re not trying to arrange a first date. These are some common traits of people with successful careers in a booming job market: ...

For institutions that lack the budget or staff expertise to utilize instructional design principles in online course development, generative AI may offer a way forward. One does not need to be a ...

Given the rapid changes in online learning during the pandemic, many people are familiar with the concepts of asynchronous (i.e., pre-created, learn whenever) and synchronous (in a virtual space, with ...

As more companies expand their digital learning initiatives, the demand for instructional designers has surged. Once a niche role in academia, instructional design is now a core function in corporate ...

Most instructional designers will tell you their work begins with getting a foot in the door with faculty and building rapport from there. Here are three ways to make that relationship a success. With ...

Rolando R. Garza’s job stands at the convergence of several forces transforming higher education. As an instructional designer at Texas A&M University at Kingsville, Mr. Garza works with hundreds of ...