Principles of Instructional Design

Important Instructional Design Principles

R John RobertsonLicences for photographs noted individually

Outline

Objectives

Assessment

How do you know when you’ve met your objectives?

Aligning what you want to do with how you assess it.

Toolbox

instructional designpedagogyexperienceweb designgraphic designvideo productionand much more...

Not a magic wand

does not solve every problem,fix every course,meet every need

Perfection

Dans ses écrits, un sage Italien

Dit que le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.

(In his writings, a wise Italian

says that the best is the enemy of the good)

Voltaire La Bégueule

http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Bégueule

You are not the instructor

Photo by Ethan Senack https://twitter.com/HigherEdPIRG/status/398498881085796352/photo/1 CC: BY

Incremental

Clarity

Online =/= Offline

Beyond the LMS

Suitcases

Technology and design is like a suitcase.Important but secondary to what you put inside it.

Universal design

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Open Education Resources

Design as opportunity

Reflection

Threshold Concepts and Disciplinary Knowledge

Questions

References

● NCSU, The Center for Universal Design (1997) “The Principles of Universal Design” http://www.ncsu.edu/ncsu/design/cud/pubs_p/docs/poster.pdf

● G. Forsythe “@bccampus #OERforum @opencontent Why Open Education?” [visual notes] https://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/8100966908/