A Snapshot of Instructional Design: Talking Points for a Field in Transition

"Today, we need instructional designers who are equally fluent in learning design, faculty professional development, research methods, and technology," Bowen elaborated. "They must be able to partner with faculty to create, experiment, and publish innovative approaches to teaching and learning. Unfortunately, this looks a lot different than what we have in many instructional design units right now."

Project Management for Instructional Designers

If you have a Centre for Teaching and Learning or a Learning Technology unit, they should have such specialists. It would also be sensible to make sure that an instructional designer also attends your first meeting, as their skills are somewhat different, although related.

Secondly,instructionaldesigners,duetothedevelopingcomplexityoftoolsandavailabilityofopeneducationresources,playaneducationalroleofdirectingeducatorstotoolsandresources.Thesetwofoundationalchanges,whilepresentedhereasaconceptualdiscussionandinneedofadditionalexperimentationandevaluation,mayserveasleversforbroaderchangeswithintheacademy