Instructional Design for Online and Blended Courses

🎓 Course Title: Instructional Design for Online and Blended Courses

🚀 Headline: Build Online Courses Using Best Practices from Free Templates We Provide! 🚀

Course Description:

Embark on a transformative journey to create engaging and effective online or blended courses with the guidance of Andrew Sears, President of City Vision University, and a distinguished panel of educational technology experts. This project-based course is a treasure trove for educators eager to harness the power of digital learning platforms. 🛠️💡

Key Course Elements:

• Comprehensive Needs Analysis Template: Dive into understanding your audience, their needs, and how your course will meet those needs.
• Course Design Blueprint Template: Use this as your canvas to map out the structure and flow of your online course.
• Engaging Course Introduction Template: Capture your learners' attention from the moment they log in.
• Robust Course Syllabus Template and Checklist: Outline your course objectives, content, assignments, and timeline for success.
• Course Design Rubric: A self-evaluation tool to ensure your course design meets industry best practices.

By the end of this course, you will have crafted at least 6 modules within the Canvas Learning Management System, demonstrating a solid foundation in instructional design principles.

Instructor Expertise:

Andrew Sears brings a wealth of experience to this course, having served as the President of City Vision University, where he's leading the charge for radically affordable education and innovation in higher learning. His background includes co-founding MIT's Internet Telephony Consortium and working as a consultant to Sprint, venture capitalist, and internet startup entrepreneur. His passion for serving the poor with disruptive educational technologies over the past 20 years has made him a recognized leader in Christian higher education.

Course Objectives & Values:

This course is designed not only to equip you with the skills to design online courses but also to explore the integration of faith into course design. While our instructors come from a Christian higher education background, this aspect of the course is flexible and can be tailored to fit your institutional values. All are welcome, including those who choose to focus on other value systems.

Community-Driven Course Development:

As a volunteer project of the Christian Higher Education Innovation Alliance, this course is constantly evolving thanks to the contributions and feedback from participants like you. We invite you to share your insights, resources, and suggestions to help us enhance this free instructional design course and make it a leading resource in the field.

Join Us!

If you're ready to design and develop online courses that are both impactful and scalable, this is the course for you. With free templates and expert guidance from Andrew Sears, you'll be well on your way to creating courses that stand out for their quality and relevance. 🌟

Enroll now and take the first step towards becoming a master of instructional design in the online learning space! 🎉📚