Resource Spotlight: Instructional Design

The practice of instructional design (ID) is often mentioned in the context of developing online classes; we encourage instructors to consider it more broadly — whenever they are building learning experiences. In particular, ID comes into play when designing structures and architectures for teaching and learning.

While traditional ID tends to focus on fairly rigid structures and carefully mapped objectives, assignments, and assessment, we are also interested in what instructional design looks like in more emergent and explorative courses. What does it look like to design for emergence? For creative exploration? For failure?

Featured PSU Resources

Design Forward: Formats & Modalities

The Formats & Modalities module of Design Forward (the CoLab’s faculty development platform), provides additional resources and readings for faculty who are exploring a change of course modality (switching between F2F, hybrid, online asynch, online synch, hyflex, etc.).

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Reading List

Ann, G. (n.d.). Can HighFlex Pedagogy Exist in a LowFlex Society? [Blog]. All Things Pedagogical. Retrieved June 28, 2021.
Burtis, M., & Stommel, J. (2021, April 27). Counter-friction to Stop the Machine: The Endgame for Instructional Design. Hybrid Pedagogy.
Crosslin, M. (2018). Creating Online Learning Experiences. Mavs Open Press.
Darby, F. (2020). The Learner-Centered Instructional Designer: Purposes, Processes, and Practicalities of Creating Online Courses in Higher Education (J. Quinn, Ed.). Stylus Publishing.
DeRosa, R. (2021, June 8). Never forget: your course is not only yours. THE Campus Learn, Share, Connect.
Goodyear, P. (2021, August 13). Design for Learning. Peter Goodyear.
Johnson, P. (2021). Instructional design is the catalyst. Studies in Technology Enhanced Learning, 1(2). https://doi.org/10.21428/8c225f6e.779fcae5
Jonan, D. (2019, September 12). Travelling in Troy With an Instructional Designer. Hybrid Pedagogy.
Michal-Morris, S., & Stachowiak, B. (n.d.). Critical Instructional Design [Audio recording]. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
Mitchell, J. (2021, August 16). What is Co-design? Medium.
Morris, S. M. (2017, July 24). Reimagining the Syllabus. Sean Michael Morris.
Parrish, P. E. (2005). Embracing the Aesthetics of Instructional Design. Educational Technology, 45(2), 16–25.
Perekatov, O. (2015, October 5). Vilem Flusser: to design is to decieve. Medium.
Quinn, J., Burtis, M., & Jhangiani, S. (2022). Toward a critical instructional design. Hybrid Pedagogy Inc.
Reilly, M. A. (2009). Opening Spaces of Possibility: The Teacher as Bricoleur. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 52(5), 376–384. https://doi.org/10.1598/JAAL.52.5.2
Reiser, R. A. (2001). A History of Instructional Design and Technology: Part II: A History of Instructional Design. Educational Technology Research and Development, 49(2), 57–67.
Schurr, M. (n.d.). How might my classroom be redesigned to better meet my students’ needs? 129.
Silver, J. (2018, January 26). ​Edtech Is Trapped in Ben Bloom’s Basement – EdSurge News. EdSurge.
Veletsianos, G. (2021, January 5). Talk: Striving for Balance in Online Learning. George Veletsianos, PhD.
Woodley, X. M., & Rice, M. F. (2022). Designing Intersectional Online Education: Critical Teaching and Learning Practices. Taylor & Francis Group.
Inclusive Design Research Centre. (n.d.). Retrieved August 26, 2021.
The Landscape of Merging Modalities. (n.d.). Retrieved June 3, 2021.
The Blank Syllabus. (n.d.). Pedagogy Unbound. Retrieved March 19, 2021.
The Documents We Teach By. (2020, April 6). Hybrid Pedagogy.
Teaching Hybrid & Online. (n.d.). Digital Learning & Inquiry (DLINQ). Retrieved January 5, 2021.
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