Suppose you’re designing an online course. How might you use Open Educational Resources (OER)? Let’s take a quick look at a common model for instructional design – the ADDIE model. (There are many others but this one is very common and useful for our discussion.)

This course outline examines topics of importance to educators participating in instructional design projects. Topics include needs assessment, adult learning principles, learning objectives, instructional strategies, assessment, implementation and evaluation. Learners will develop a course using media and open educational resources while observing copyright and plagiarism guidelines.

This activity provides a hands-on experience with non-projected visuals, projected visuals, display surfaces, real objects, audio, and motion visuals, and the materials/technology needed to produce them. Through this activity, participants are introduced to the basic principles of effectively integrating methods, media, and materials into an instructional situation; effectively operating and utilizing media and materials in an instructional situation; and evaluating media and methods in terms of their effectiveness in instructional situations.

In this module, Introduction to Connected Learning, you will learn what connected learning is and why it is important, and evaluate your youth programs to see how well they incorporate connected learning principles.

Many young adults and college students begin transitioning into adulthood with distinct deficiencies in their kitchen skills. Kitchen skills are a daily life component useful in safely preparing nutritionally adequate meals. They can also serve the additional purpose of entertainment as a way to grow a love of cooking. These knowledge gaps affect their culinary performances and their abilities to thrive independently in the adult environment. To help fill these gaps, Chosen Ten Instructional Design has created an interactive digital learning course for incoming college students to learn about cooking and managing a personal kitchen. This interactive learning object intends to provide instruction on critical areas of kitchen safety that are relevant to these learners now and will increase their confidence in the kitchen as they progress through life. Consisting of an interactive PowerPoint with infographics, other interactive elements, and videos, this digital learning object has been uploaded to OER Commons, where it can be accessed by both the target learning group and anyone who feels that their culinary knowledge and skills require refreshing.

An example of two learning personas.  Created using ChatGPT.  Transcript from ChatGPT is included in the Sources section. 

This is an Instructional Design Technology master's program assignment. It is a learning object created by me when I was in the first semester of my program.

This toolkit was developed by the Higher Education 4.0 instructional design (ID) team to help lecturers work with the IDs collaborative to produce a MOOC efficiently. The questionnaire within the overarching storyline interaction will also be added on OER Commons so you can duplicate and adapt it for your institute.

In this module, you will learn best practices for encouraging mentoring relationships (librarians as mentors, youth mentors, adult and community mentors) within a youth librarian context.

This MS Form should be used in conjunction with the MOOC development toolkit to support lecturers to build their MOOCs efficiently

Motivating Students by Design (2018) explains how instructors can motivate students intentionally through the design of their courses. The two primary purposes of this book are to present a motivation model that can be used to design instruction and to provide practical motivation strategies and examples that can be used to motivate students to engage in learning. Based on decades of research, Dr. Brett Jones presents a framework to organize teaching strategies that motivate students. All of the strategies presented are followed by several examples, which provide readers with about 150 ideas for how the strategies can be implemented in courses. This book will be useful to graduate students and beginning professors, as well as professors who are more experienced and want to refine their instruction or try new strategies.

It is helpful to know who is using this free PDF version of the book. Please take a minute to complete a brief informational survey at https://bit.ly/interest-motivatingstudents

How to access this book This text is available as a whole book in PDF at https://hdl.handle.net/10919/102728. A print-on-demand version is also available via Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Motivating-Students-Design-Strategies-Professors/dp/1981497013