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The Instructional Designer Certificate is designed to support the development of competency, expertise, and skills in online instructional designers, librarians, and multimedia specialists who currently work with online faculty and other online learning support professionals.

Throughout each of the courses, participants will collaborate in discussion with their colleagues and gain knowledge and skills in: analyzing learning/instructional theories and instructional methods to support professional development and practice; providing strategies and resources for staying current with emerging best practices; guiding new and experienced faculty through the online course development process; providing opportunities to faculty for integrating rich and appropriate multimedia into the course design; and becoming qualified in applying the OLC Open SUNY Course Quality Review (OSCQR) rubric and process.

The Instructional Design Mastery Series is focused on learning outcomes and assessment, instructional strategies, and course management and evaluation of courses that may take place in various learning environments (i.e., web-enhanced, blended, and/or online).

Throughout each of the modules, you will explore common instructional design techniques (based on relevant research) and use such strategies to help you design an effective learning unit.

Four, 4-week long courses, with a one week break between courses 
(16 weeks total)

At least 1 year of experience in supporting online course design and development in an instructional design capacity

• Faculty who want to redesign a course to improve learning effectiveness
• Faculty and/or administrators who teach faculty how to design courses
• Online educators and educational technologists who are engaged in course design

• ID Course 1: Professional Foundations: Researching, Collaborating, and Networking
• ID Course 2: Helping Faculty with New Course Development
• ID Course 3: Curating and Evaluating Resources for Faculty
• ID Course 4: Course Quality Review (OSCQR)

• Week 1: Learning Outcomes and Assessment Strategies
• Week 2: Instructional Strategies
• Week 3: Course Management and Evaluation

• Develop an effective online course development process outline and schedule
• Identify strategies for planning online faculty development experiences
• Assess the varying faculty needs for online course resources
  Identify relevant resources for inclusion in teaching and learning environments
• Apply learning theories to relevant teaching scenarios
• Identify strategies and resources for staying current with emerging best practices
• Evaluate the OSCQR Self-Serve rubric for course quality reviews
• Apply the OSCQR rubric and review process

Upon successful completion of this program, participants will be awarded an Instructional Designer Program Certificate (PDF) and a digital badge of completion.

• Discuss common practices and relevant research regarding learning outcomes and assessment strategies
• Develop a learning outcomes matrix
• Explore a broad range of instructional strategies
• Identify appropriate instructional strategies for effective course delivery
• Create a plan for course analysis and management
• Develop a course evaluation plan that ensures a continuous feedback loop for improvement

Upon successful completion of this program, participants will be awarded a Recognition of Mastery in Instructional Design (PDF certificate) and a digital badge of completion.