Ninhua Han The importance of an instructional designer

Ninghua is an instructional design specialist at Austin Community College who has helped design and develop 42 CBE courses in the past 3 years.

Course design is a key component in a CBE program.

01:00 – It is a challenge for instructional designers to design CBE courses because

• Many faculty members might not know what CBE is
• Or what the difference is between CBE course design and regular course design

01:30 – Instructional designers need to collaborate with faculty

• to design competencies and
• to make sure competencies, learning objectives, learning activities, and assessments are aligned with each other

01:55 – No matter how experienced the faculty member, the designer needs to encourage them to come up with new ideas and methodologies to design a CBE course

02:23 – Also encourage faculty to integrate new technologies into their courses

02:37 – Designer and faculty are good team by the time a course is finished – Learn, encourage and motivate each other

02:51 – Helping faculty design CBE courses not an easy job

• Instructional designers need to keep updating their own knowledge
• Need to be a good listener, learner, collaborator, co-worker and need to be supportive