What is Instructional Desgin

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The Profiling Phase includes these questions: What does the learner know? What does the learner need to know? And what way does the learner learn best? The Strategizing Phase includes these questions: What resources do I have? What will constitute the learning journey? Who will do what? The Ascertainment Phase includes these two questions: How do I check that the learner achieved the outcomes? How will I report this?
How do we do that?
Work with Subject Matter Experts to identify what students need to learn Develop objectives and ensure content matches those objectives Revise and rewrite content to shape it for learning needs Structure content and activities for student learning Create media to support learning (e.g., visual aids for face-to-face, various multimedia for e-learning and online) Develop assessments (note that this does not only mean tests) Adapt instructional materials created for one format to another format (usually this is adapting materials from face-to-face to e-learning)