Industrial Design

A.1

“Instructional design is the systematic process of translating general principles of learning into plans for instructional materials and learning”  According to the Cornell University Center for Teaching Excellence your design should include “Setting Learning Outcomes”, “Writing a Syllabus”, “Flipping the Classroom”, “Incorporating Diversity”, “Universal Design”, “Academic Integrity”, “Working with TAs”, Plans for the first day, “Student Evaluations” and “Course Redesign”.

In developing learning outcomes your concerns will be what will the important things you want the student to know, important they will be able to do, and the information that they’ll take from your course and use in another. Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives should be used as a guide for useful action verbs useful for writing objectives.  Construct drafts, consider what’s possible, keeping the most essential learning outcomes.

The syllabus should include learning outcomes, define what will learn, provide a clear path of what it takes to be a successful student. Also the syllabus should define procedures and policies of the institution.

Incorporated in the teaching paradigm should include active learning programs, forums, problem solving and other forms of peer to peer activities such as Zoom, Kaienza . Videos, flashcards, short snippets of procedures that highlight the use of the information they are trying to learn.

Diverse learning styles helps to develop an inclusive style of learning encouraging the value of input and output from all peoples. This “Universal Design” should include the principles of “Options for Perception”, “Options for Expressions”, and Option for Comprehension”.

Academic integrity, working with classroom assistants, first day plans , student evaluations from a previous class, and re-design efforts should all be a part of what will  according the criteria set by the OEI.