Instructional Design Service Course: Gain Experience for Good

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Welcome!

During this 12-week course, you will engage in a real-world authentic instructional design challenge that centers on the design and development of free open educational resources (OER) for adult basic education. This open service-learning course is facilitated by Designers for Learning Links to an external site., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States. We coordinate service-learning opportunities with those who seek to gain experience creating instruction and other types of performance improvement solutions to support important social causes. In this project-based course, you will gain instructional design experience while developing instructional materials that will be made available for free to adult educators and their learners in the Adult Learning Zone group on OER Commons Links to an external site.


Where do I begin?


Course Content

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Help Forums

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Live Webcast & Recordings

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 Module 0:
Let's Get Started!

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Module 1: Analyze
Your Learners & Instructional Opportunity

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Module 2: Synthesize
Your First Design Decisions

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Module 3: Synthesize
Designing the Instructional Experience

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Module 4: Simulate
Drafting Your Design Proposal

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Module 5: Simulate
Developing a Prototype

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Module 6: Evaluate
Refining Your Design in Formative Evaluation

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Module 7: Decide
Submitting Your Final Deliverable

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How is this course structured?

After you have completed the Canvas User Orientation and Canvas Welcome Survey, take a moment to review the course structure:

  • When you return to the course, or if you get lost, remember that the Modules list appears in the left sidebar of every page where you are able to view your progress, and review past, current, and upcoming material.
  • This course is structured within modules that organize the materials you will review and complete. See the listing of modules in the table above that includes links to the first page of each module.
  • All of the course modules are open for your review. However, given this is a project-based course, we request that you proceed through the course materials in numerical order starting with Module 0 and ending with Module 7. 
  • This course is designed to be self-guided with set due dates for Discussions, Reflections, and Assignments to keep everyone on track to complete the course. In addition, course facilitators will provide weekly Announcements that will serve as progress checkpoints.
  • If you need help, please post your question in one of our two Help Forums. If you have a question about your design project, post your question in the Ask a Subject Matter Expert forum. Other general questions about the course can be posted within the Help! forum.
CC Attribution This course content is offered under a CC Attribution Links to an external site. license. Content in this course can be considered under this license unless otherwise noted.