Instructional Design Services
- Consulting with faculty members on an individual basis regarding the design and development of their courses.
- Consulting with departments regarding the design of programs offered at a distance.
- Providing multimedia production services.
- Developing and conducting workshops
- Conducting the annual Distance Learning Academy.
- Gathering and distributing “best practices”.
The faculty member is invited to discuss a new or existing course with an Instructional Designer. The objective of the discussion is to create a new course or revise elements of an existing course. Resulting options may be incorporated into the course based upon the decisions of the course instructor. IDC staff members including a Video/Multimedia Producer, Graphic Designer, and Photographer are then brought in as needed to produce course elements.
Solutions are generated as a result of discussions between the Instructional Designer and the faculty member. The solutions are developed as a result of a collaborative team that may include, for example, a multimedia producer as well as the instructional designer. The resulting course product is based upon principles of quality course design.
Often a course is already being offered and an instructor desires an “objective eye” to assist in an informal evaluation of the course. In addition, IDC personnel will assist in the more formal evaluation of existing courses.
Instructional Photography Services
Our Professional Photographer can produce files and slides from materials such as drawings, photographs from books, student projects and other items as requested for instructional use. Also available is processing of color slide film of fieldtrips and classroom documentation for instruction. Some alteration of digital files is available. For more information please contact David Smith by email, call 622-2242 or visit him in the Crabbe Library Room 308.