The Learner-Centered Instructional Designer: Purposes, Processes, and Practicalities of Creating Online Courses in Higher Education

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“What does a new instructional designer need to know to find her
or his feet when working with faculty to create online classes?”

This is a practical handbook for established and aspiring
instructional designers in higher education, readers who may also be identified
by such professional titles as educational developer, instructional
technologist, or online learning specialist.

Jerod Quinn, together with a team
of experienced instructional designers who have worked extensively with a wide
range of faculty on a multiplicity of online courses across all types of institutions,
offer key guiding principles, insights and advice on how to develop productive
and collegial partnerships with faculty to deliver courses that engage students
and promote enduring learning.

Designing and developing online classes for higher education
takes a combination of pedagogical knowledge, the ability to build trust with
faculty, familiarity with frameworks on how people learn, understanding of
accessibility and inclusion, and technical skills to leverage a learning
management system into an educational experience. Coming from diverse
backgrounds, few instructional designers enter academia well versed in all of
these aspects of creating online classes. This book provides the foundation on
which instructional designers can build their careers.

The guiding principle that
animates this book is that the student experience and successful learning
outcomes are paramount, and governs discussion of course design, pedagogy, the
use of multimedia and technological advances, as well as the use of different
forms of interactive exercises and group assignments. The succinct, informally
written chapters offer ideas and means to apply theory to the daily work of
instructional design and cover the four key components that drive thus work in
higher education:

● Defining
the scope and main design approaches of our work
● Building
trust with the faculty we work with
● Applying
frameworks of how people learn
● Mastering
common online instructional practices

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08NRM9CVJ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stylus Publishing (November 17, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 17, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2921 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 352 pages