Designing Collaborative Instructional Design using OERs

Technology, digital media, and mobile access have changed how people learn. Today’s student wants to be engaged and self-directed with digital content available anytime, anywhere. This is a challenge for instructional designers as they create online learning experiences. As an instructional designer, it’s critical to understand emerging learning theories including Bloom’s taxonomy and constructivism and how they relate to the way people learn in our digitally connected world. The program in Instructional Design is developed to meet the increasing challenges created by the high technology training needs of academic, corporate, and public educators.
Through a combination of readings, discussions, video lectures, quizes and assignments , this program provides participants with the opportunity to design and produce computer-mediated learning activities and interactive multimedia materials, and to make effective use of instructional technology in designing learning experiences.