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Instructional Design

Online Resources:

Florida Gulf Coast University, 2001, Faculty Development and Support, http://www.fgcu.edu/onlinedesign/designdev.html This site describes the design process and provides a useful checklist to ensure that all aspects of the design process are considered.
Gottschalk, Tania H., 2001 Guide #3 Instructional Development for Distance Education http://www.uidaho.edu/evo/dist3.html This is a concise description of the design process in 4 stages - design, development, evaluation and revision.
NC State University, 2001, Instructional Design Considerations for Moving your course to the Web http://lts.ncsu.edu/development/instructional_design.html This is an excellent site that explains a number of issues to consider when adapting a course for online delivery.
Schneider, Daniel, 1994, Teaching and Learning with Internet Tools – A Position Paper, presented at the Workshop on “Teaching & Learning with the Web” at the First International Conference on the World-Wide Web, Geneva.  http://tecfa.unige.ch/edu-comp/edu-ws94/contrib/schneider/schneide.fm.html The different components of the online learning process are explained.  The role of the teacher as a guide and the importance of active learning are stressed.

Offline Resources:

Dewald, Nancy; Scholz-Crane, Ann; Booth, Austin; Levine, Cynthia, 2000, Informational literacy at a distance: Instructional design Issues, Journal of Academic Librarianship, Vol 26, issue 1, pp. 33-45.

This article discusses the issues that should be considered in instructional design.  The importance and benefits of active learning are stressed and examples are provided.

Hazari, Dr. Sunil; Schnorr, Dr. Donna, 1999, Leveraging student feedback to improve teaching in web-based courses, T H E Journal, Vol 26, issue 11, pp. 30-37.  

The importance of obtaining feedback from students about the learning process is stressed.  The use of HTML forms is suggested to collect useful feedback about online learning.

Hirumi, Atsusi; Bermudez, Andrea, 1996, Interactivity, distance education, and instructional systems design converge on the information superhighway, Journal of Research on Computing in Education, Vol 29, issue 1, pp. 1-17.

This article provides a practical example of how the instructional design process was used to create and interactive Internet-based course.  Emphasis was put on including interactivity, active learning and learning communities.

Martin, Oliver, 2000, Evaluating Online teaching and learning, Information Services & Use, Vol. 20 issue 2/3, pp. 83-95.

The issues involved with evaluating online teaching and learning are discussed and various strategies are suggested.

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