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Instructional
Design & Learning Theories
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Course Development Teams (continued)
The team includes curriculum developers, an instructional designer, and the dean of the College of Education. Phoenix uses Bloom's Taxonomy six tiers as a guide when designing courses.
The design team creates lesson plans and syllabuses to be used by all instructors who teach courses at the University of Phoenix. The team keeps Joe, the inexperienced instructor, in mind when designing the curriculum. Instructors can add whatever they want to the curriculum as long as they meet all the objectives developed by the content team.
The same course development method is applied whether the course will be taught online or on-ground. Currently about one third of Phoenix's 125,000 students take their classes online.
Instructional design plays an important role in the development of distance and hybrid courses. Modern technologies allow online courses to integrate proven "best practices" into distance education courses. Student-centered learning, increased interaction (student-to-student, instructor to student), collaboration, immediate feedback, and attention to different learning styles, can all be effectively addressed in the online classroom.
Lesson Three Links:
Readings Summary Slideshow
Self-assessment quiz
Lesson three assignments
Supplemental Online Resources:
Instructional
Development for Distance Education
Effective
Instructional Design
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