The Instructional Design Wizard provides you with a step-by-step process for:
- Defining course learning objectives
- Incorporating assessment activities
- Identifying appropriate instructional methods and activities
- Recommending tools that support the learning experiences you want to provide in your course
- Promoting alignment between learning experiences and Bloom’s Taxonomy
As you progress through the wizard, it creates a course structure using placeholders in the Course Builder and reviews instructional design strategies.
The Instructional Design Wizard promotes the following instructional design best practices and concepts for course design:
- Understanding learner personas
- Spending time early in the process to document your desired outcomes and learning goals for your course, including a mix of knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation objectives
- Determining an appropriate mix of instructional strategies for the course and its lessons, including direct instruction, collaborative learning, independent learning, and experiential learning
- Creating a variety of content-focused and application-focused learning experiences using iLearn Learning Environment tools and technology in different ways
- Determining appropriate measurement and assessment strategies, including diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments to understand, customize, and accurately measure learning outcomes
- Reviewing your course for appropriate length, distribution of experiences, etc.
Use the Learning Activity Library to view, activate or deactivate, and add to the activity descriptions in the Instructional Design Wizard by creating custom activity descriptions.
The Owner column indicates which org unit an activity description exists within. Activities listed as owned by System are org-level activity descriptions.
Icons in the Cognitive Skills column show the cognitive domain from Bloom's Taxonomy that different activity descriptions develop.