Rapid Instructional Design: Increasing Educator Capacity for Developing Elearning Solutions

Dr Iain Doherty and I spoke for approximately 20 minutes on rapid instructional design as a process for allowing educators to quickly and easily author elearning episodes to enhance their teaching. We made particular mention of the need for quality control and evaluation of the learning designs in the rapid instructional design process. We took questions for five minutes. We were asked about how we would evaluate the impact of the learning designs and discussion lead to the conclusion that there is a need to show benefit at the level of student learning. We were also asked about how we would ensure the quality of the designs. We suggested that we would work with the educators to help them with their designs. This led to further discussion about whether quality control would necessarily slow down the rapid instructional design process. Finally, one attendee let us know that she was about to start a PhD looking at Faculty development. We met with the attendee after our session and agreed to provide previous research along with our session paper.