Instructional Design
Contact
Kristin Koepke
Instructional Designer
182 Wing Technology Center
608.785.6873
Overview
Instructional design is the systematic process of designing, delivering, and reviewing instruction. The Instructional Designer at UW-L supports curricular development by providing individual consultations for faculty to help develop curricula and pedagogical strategies to enhance teaching and learning. Whether you are looking for ways to improve your course, or wanting to incorporate technology, consulting with an experienced Instructional Designer about your ideas and how to implement them can be helpful.
Goals
The Instructional Designer will:
- Evaluate the efficacy and equity of instructional technologies and provide examples of "best practices" in the use of technologies that support student learning.
- Assist faculty, staff, and departments in the development and implementation of face-to-face and online courses that employ effective instructional design principles including, but not limited to, effective course design and review, implementation of quality assessment materials, integration of active learning techniques, writing and measuring learning objectives, creative approaches to ensuring students learning, and integration of appropriate technologies.
In addition the Instructional Designer is there to have open conversations about effective teaching strategies and to help faculty and academic staff think strategically about how and why courses are designed and delivered, along with how to review and revise courses based on lessons learned. Working with an Instructional Designer can take place at any stage of the course delivery process – before teaching the course for the first time, while teaching a course, and after teaching a course. Working with an Instructional Designer can open the door to new approaches to course delivery and allow for broader thinking about ways to enhance courses for the ultimate purpose of student learning.
Teaching and Learning Activities
Online asynchronous training courses will be offered throughout both academic semesters. Please check back for more information.
CATL Colloquium Sessions involve aspects of instructional design principles. Please check the CATL Calendar for information about upcoming sessions.
Individual consultation on how to design and deliver an online or face-to-face course - assistance can include creative and appropriate activities, proper integration of technology, reviewing the structure and learning objectives of a course, etc.
Resources
A Faculty Resource Area is currently being developed in D2L. If you have ideas about what type of information to include in this resource area or would like to be enrolled upon release of the course in D2L, please contact Kristin Koepke.
Merlot: The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Resources in Merlot are searchable, peer-reviewed items that can be used in online and face-to-face classes.
Wisc-Online: The Wisconsin Online Resource Center is a digital library of web-based learning objects. According to the website, "The digital library of objects has been developed primarily by faculty from the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) and produced by multimedia technicians who create the learning objects for the online environment."
Sloan-C: The Sloan Consortium is a professional and institutional organization that focuses on the connection of online learning into higher education. The website provides a number of valuable resources.
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