For many years, as an Instructional Designer in higher education, and industry, I learned from and collaborated with faculty and subject matter experts across a spectrum of disciplines. My own experience as a faculty member teaching graduate courses in instructional design (ID) and e-learning development has been key in building rapport with subject matter experts.
Instructional Design Services
- Develop and manage schedules for online course development and delivery for assigned programs
- Communicate with faculty/SME about expectations and deadlines
- Develop new courses and update current courses
- Coordinate with teams associated with learning technologies to support instructional media
- Design and develop multimedia components
- Identify strategies for improving processes & procedures
- Troubleshoot LMS issues
- Anticipated and created solutions for organizational workflow improvements
Direct Faculty and Client Support
- Instructional Strategies for face2face, hybrid, and online instruction
- One-to-one and group training on Planning and Designing
- Refining expectations of course outcomes based on organizational goals
- Feedback Loop - In-course / participant-level, learner-level, analysis
- Training on tools for instruction
- Editing instructional materials
Course/Program Design and Development Support
- Coordinate with departments and faculty in defining program and course expectations of course standards/outcomes based on organizational goals
- Create various types of user support materials including standard operating procedures, qualifications, manuals, adult learning education
- Develop appropriate training objectives and test methods to design valid instructional materials
- Design instructionally sound lesson plans incorporating a variety of delivery methods and media
- Interact with management and subject matter expert to ensure accuracy and instructional content
- Conduct and lead needs analysis, and evaluate effectiveness of learning solution
Tracking/Time Management
- Coordinate with all department and course stakeholders to assure course construction and maintenance schedules are being applied according to program goals
- Ensure that courses are designed with accessibility in mind
- Evaluate the instructional effectiveness of ID processes
- Apply standards associated with Quality Matters rubric or other assessment tool
- Coordinate the development of instructional materials
- Train faculty on emerging technologies
- Provide continuous assistance with course readiness and course transfer