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 ...

Good listener. People person. Lifelong learner. Sound like you? No, we’re not trying to arrange a first date. These are some common traits of people with successful careers in a booming job market: ...

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 ...

Don't underestimate the value of pre-planning, said Stucklen. It begins by developing a course outcomes matrix, a list of "well-written" learning objectives that express what you want students to ...

For institutions that lack the budget or staff expertise to utilize instructional design principles in online course development, generative AI may offer a way forward. One does not need to be a ...

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 ...

These best practices from the Learning Design and Technology program at the University of San Diego will help practitioners create the best possible learning experience for students and develop a ...

Our Instructional Designers support faculty in the development of personal pedagogies to deliver dynamic and engaging learning experiences for students. Whether you are developing new courses, or ...

A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers. Yet, when I graduated from college in 2008, I didn’t know this field existed.

Institutional support trails the fervor of instructional designers’ ambitions to do research, sometimes due to the relative novelty of the job title, according to a new study released Tuesday. More ...