As more companies expand their digital learning initiatives, the demand for instructional designers has surged. Once a niche role in academia, instructional design is now a core function in corporate ...

The College of Education & Human Development is introducing a new online graduate certificate in Instructional Design and Technology (GC-IDT). This 15-credit program, commencing in the Spring 2024 ...

The Instructional Design for e-Learning certificate program prepares students to apply the principles, theories, models, tools, and techniques of systematic instructional design in diverse e-Learning ...

When instructional designers are involved in online course design, student-to-student interaction goes up, according to a new survey of online education leaders from Quality Matters and Eduventures ...

When she joined the University of Delaware Division of Professional and Continuing Studies (UD PCS) digital learning team in 2016, Aviva Heyn had no idea how significant her work would become. One of ...

Given the rapid changes in online learning during the pandemic, many people are familiar with the concepts of asynchronous (i.e., pre-created, learn whenever) and synchronous (in a virtual space, with ...

Often, I hear uncertainty about the future framed as a debate around how people learn. There is ongoing speculation — by training and development experts within organizations as a conversation among ...

In the fall of 2017, Robin Sargent found herself conducting an exit interview with a promising instructional designer who was leaving after just eight months. The young hire — bright, eager, freshly ...

When J. Ann Dumas, now a senior lecturer in Pennsylvania State University’s department of film-video and media studies, was an undergraduate in the 1970s, she was among a small handful of students on ...

Multimodal course design is an instructional approach that integrates multiple delivery methods—such as in-person, synchronous online, and/or asynchronous components—within a single course structure.

The Disability Resource Center is developing a system to make video captions and subtitles a universal standard for learning in classes at the University of Minnesota. Typically students who may need ...