Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Instructional design
One of the challenges of an expanding cadre of teachers and a stagnant budget is providing instructional design resources. A session of the TxDLA conference dealt with creating a part-time instructional design (PT-ID) team from instructors who are experienced and willing. The teams, consisting of three or four members, meet with the director of distance education on a weekly basis. They not only design courses but review existing courses for suggestions for improvement.
The team members are compensated with overload pay for one course per term and must re-apply each term. They have to be willing to work as a team and put 6-8 hours a week into the PT-ID activities.
I am thinking that we could do something like this at Wayland, using LiveClassroom to communicate between team members and individual teachers. We have enough personnel who are willing to do this sort of thing. The major challenge would be that they are not all on the same campus.
The team members are compensated with overload pay for one course per term and must re-apply each term. They have to be willing to work as a team and put 6-8 hours a week into the PT-ID activities.
I am thinking that we could do something like this at Wayland, using LiveClassroom to communicate between team members and individual teachers. We have enough personnel who are willing to do this sort of thing. The major challenge would be that they are not all on the same campus.
Labels: distance learning, instructional design
