Week 4: Instructional Design for online courses

What did you learn about the design of online courses this week that will affect how you think about this form of instruction in the future?

Looking at NACOL, rubrics for instructional design for quality assessment, the concept of “Instruction providing students with multiple learning paths to master the content, based on student needs” came up several times. This prompted me to review is importance, especially in relation to virtual schooling. As a former Mathematics and Physics high school teacher, I know that students have different learning styles and it is important to listen to each student’s needs. However, in a class of average 40 students with 1 teacher, it can be logistically difficult. With virtual schooling, this logistic difficult is minimized and teachers can now tap into the wonders of technology to make this possible.