Instructional Design Services
Instructional design resources
Instructional design is the systematic process of developing a course and/or components
of a course. The process follows a prescribed framework of analysis of learning goals,
planning of teaching strategies and development of instructional activities and assessments
that align with program/course learning outcomes and best facilitate effective learning.
The instructional design process is a collaborative effort involving faculty as the
subject matter experts and the instructional designers and media specialists of the
Learning Technology Center (LTC) of Computing Services.
The LTC can provide assistance with the following:
- Teaching Online Certification Course
- Reviewing your online course for alignment with Quality Matters essential standards
- Reviewing your face-to-face course for alignment of learning strategies, assessments, and learning outcomes
- Reflecting on instructional strategies and activities
- Offering ideas for evaluation methods that align with learning outcomes
- Providing guidance and training for multimedia and a variety of technology tools including D2L, Respondus, StudyMate, Campus Pack, web conferencing, clickers and more
- More on the Instructional Design Process
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Course DEvelopment resources
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Assessment Strategies:
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Open-Access Resources
Library Guide for Searching:
Libguide - CU Clarion Library's guide for searching open access materials
Copyright Free materials:
- Pixabay - free images and videos
- Creative Commons - free images, videos, text, and music
- Wikimedia Commons - a collection of freely usable media files
Scholarly Resources:
- MERLOT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
- MERLOT II - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
- MIT OpenCourseware - resources on aeronautics, civil engineering and material science
- OER Commons - 73,000 kinds of OER, along with tools for creating OER and training on how to use OER
- Open Education Consortium - OER resource toolkit, webinars, in-person events and links to open textbooks
- Carnegie Mellon University Open Learning Initiative - STEM and computing resources
- Saylor Academy - resources in Art History, Business, Engineering, History, Political Science and Psychology
- The Orange Grove: Florida's Open Educational Resource Repository - find, use and share a wide range of K-12 and post-secondary resources