My perspective on important principles of instructional design.

1. Important
Instructional Design
Principles
R John Robertson
Licences for photographs noted individually

2. Outline

3. Objectives

4. Assessment
How do you know
when you’ve met your
objectives?
Aligning what you
want to do with how
you assess it.

5. Toolbox
instructional design
pedagogy
experience
web design
graphic design
video production
and much more...

6. Not a magic wand
does not solve every
problem,
fix every course,
meet every need

7. Perfection
Dans ses écrits, un sage Italien
Dit que le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.
(In his writings, a wise Italian
says that the best is the enemy of the good)
Voltaire La Bégueule
http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Bégueule

8. You are not the instructor
Photo by Ethan Senack https://twitter.com/HigherEdPIRG/status/398498881085796352/photo/1 CC: BY

9. Incremental

10. Clarity

11. Online =/= Offline

12. Beyond the LMS

13. Suitcases
Technology and design
is like a suitcase.
Important but
secondary to what you
put inside it.

14. Universal design
All Rights Reserved. Available at http://www.
ncsu.edu/ncsu/design/cud/pubs_p/docs/poster.
pdf

15. Open Education Resources

16. Design as opportunity

17. Reflection

18. Threshold Concepts and
Disciplinary Knowledge

19. Questions

20. References
● NCSU, The Center for Universal Design (1997) “The
Principles of Universal Design” http://www.ncsu.
edu/ncsu/design/cud/pubs_p/docs/poster.pdf
● G. Forsythe “@bccampus #OERforum @opencontent
Why Open Education?” [visual notes] https://www.flickr.
com/photos/gforsythe/8100966908/