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Certificate - Non-Credit Bearing | Online

FOUNDATIONS OF INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN

Organizations strive to empower people by building knowledge, skills and perspectives. To achieve these results, leaders must embrace the art of designing and delivering engaging learning experiences that inspire growth and development.

Why This Program?

How do learners best learn? How can we know they have actually learned? How can they apply their learning in real-life contexts? These are just a few questions that are explored in this course. Instructional design is the purposeful and methodical design and development of learning experiences.

The course begins with basic foundational concepts that ensure learning experiences are optimized for all learners. Knowing how various learning theories impact selected instructional practices helps leaders ensure that educational efforts achieve the desired results.

The course lays out a three-step process for designing learning experiences. Focusing on a “backwards” design process, leaders clearly articulate their desired results and determine how they’ll assess whether learners have achieved these outcomes. Innovative and engaging instructional practices are then selected to help learners develop the targeted knowledge and skills.

 

Why it matters...

 

Instructional design principles and practices are used by a variety of professions to impact their vocations. In this video, Fielder Dennis (Class of 2022) describes how instructional design informs his work as a media producer.

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What You'll Learn

  • Utilize instructional design models to plan, design, develop and deliver learning activities.

  • Apply learning theories to the design of learning activities and assessments of learning.

  • Write performance-based learning objectives that clearly articulate goals for learners.

  • Design and develop assessment activities and resources that align with related objectives.

  • Design and develop a logical sequence of learning activities that utilize a variety of research-supported and widely accepted pedagogy.

  • Determine when and how to deliver learning activities and assessments in a variety of formats (i.e., face-to-face, online, hybrid).

  • Evaluate the effectiveness of learning activities for the purpose of continuous improvement.

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Career Possibilities

  • Instructional Design
  • Instructional Media Production
  • Curriculum Development
  • Training

Program Details

Program Fee $500
Program Length 20-25 hours
Program Format

Asynchronous, Self-Paced

Registration Opens Ongoing
Registration Deadline N/A
Target Audience Foundations of Instructional Design is tailored for individuals leading, coordinating and/or developing an educational initiative or learning experience.
Alumni Discount Belmont University Alumni receive 10% discount

Instructor Information

Dr. Geoff Price is the Director of Instructional Technology at Belmont University, where he oversees the University’s utilization of academic technology to enhance teaching and learning. He also coordinates instructional design efforts for online and non-credit learning experiences. Prior to Belmont, Dr. Price taught at Wake Forest University, the University of Alabama and Baylor University. His teaching and research has centered on the integration of technology and pedagogy to create meaningful and effective learning experiences.

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Course Fee
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Registration Deadline
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Address:
1900 Belmont Boulevard
Nashville, TN 37212


Phone: (615) 460.8637

Email: online@belmont.edu