INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN
Instructional Design Education
My education in Instructional Design started in 1998, though not part of a formal program. These were courses I chose to take to support my Technical Writing career. Some of these courses I found at a community college, a university when I was pursuing my M.S.Ed. Adult & Higher Education, and others through my employer (online courses):
- ETT 439 Developing Educational Software, (Northern Illinois University, 2005)
- COM 219 Building Instructional Websites (College of Lake County, 2000)
- Multimedia Authoring, (College of Lake County, 1999)
- Authorware Fundamentals, (Allen Interactions, 1999)
- Instructional Design for Trainers, (American Management Association International, 1998)
- Advanced Online Publishing, (College of Lake County, 1998)
- Online Publishing, (College of Lake County, 1998)
In 2011, I started and completed the Graduate Certificate in Instructional Design program at the University of Wisconsin-Stout:
Instructional design is the art and science of creating instruction for learners in a systematic manner that leads to maximum knowledge transfer. The graduate-level Instructional Design professional development certificate provides students with the skills, knowledge, and abilities necessary to design effective, technology enhanced instruction, select appropriate instructional strategies, develop computer mediated training, and manage instructional development projects. (UW-Stout Graduate Bulletin, 2011)
The program consisted of four graduate-level courses (three semester hours each). The courses included:
- EDUC 765 Trends and Issues in Instructional Design
- EDUC 766 Instructional Strategies and Assessment Methods
- EDUC 767 Designing Computer-Based Training (CBT)
- EDUC 768 Project Management for Instructional Development
Later, I took additional Instructional Design graduate-level courses that were part of the Graduate Certificate in E-Learning and Online Teaching program at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
- EDUC 646 Using Games for Learning and Assessment, (University of Wisconsin-Stout, 2013)
- EDUC 763 Instructional Design for E-Learning, (University of Wisconsin-Stout, 2013)
- EDUC 641 Mobile Learning Instructional Design, (University of Wisconsin-Stout, 2013)
The following pages have information about my instructional design background and some writing or multimedia examples:
