Instructional Design: Educational Media (FutureLearn)

Learn techniques to develop educational media that will enhance your learning materials and help students retain knowledge. Understand how to promote student engagement. Educational media is an essential and evolving element of online course design. The notion of “lectures,” as many have known them, is now under review as we understand more about how people learn. On this three-week course, you’ll question what you know about lectures and media, before discovering new media models to help promote student engagement.

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You’ll debate how students learn and explore the tools and techniques to apply to your course to improve the learning experience.

Explore how visual elements enhance learning

With an understanding of how people learn, you’ll discover how visual elements enhance that learning.

You’ll learn how you can align visual components with your course content before comparing and contrasting educational media models to find the one that works for you.

Discuss scripting and proof of concept to further your skills

Once you know the best practices for student learning, you’ll use this to create a media plan as well as a media presentation to help facilitate learning.

As part of this process, you’ll learn about scripting and the importance of developing a proof of concept to help move your ideas forward.

Create a successful media production team

You’ll finish the course by examining the ways you can put together your media team personnel to help schedule your media development and deliver results.

Learning from senior instructional designer Patricia Baia, you’ll gain exclusive insights into how to be successful in your role and deliver high-quality courses.

Syllabus

Week 1: Intentional Media

Week 2: Simplified Media Production

Week 3: Media Production Teams

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

Align visual components with course content

Compare and contrast educational media models

Create a media presentation
Who is the course for?

This course is designed for new or experienced instructional designers as well as educators looking to make the transition into instructional design.

Take your instructional design skills to the next level with these courses from the same provider:

- Course Planning and Pedagogy

- Course Development

- Facilitation Skills