Richard is an Instructional Designer at Southern Wesleyan University. His main responsibility is to ensure that the course goals and layouts are consistent with the college’s objectives.
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My name's Richard Smith and I'm an instructional designer here at Southern Wesleyan University. I've been at Southern Wesleyan for three years and I'm transitioning into the instructional design role and I'll be working with on campus faculty to help ensure that the course materials and the course layout is consistent, that it meets our goals and objectives here at Southern Wesleyan University and all of the online facets of their classes are set up correctly. In our post-pandemic world, education has shifted in a way where people that were once reluctant to use online platforms for learning are finding that that is a much more effective and efficient way to learn. And so the instructional designer role is all about helping our content experts, who are professors, be able to better teach their students and better present their content so that the students can learn from it. We work with things like assessment, we work with activities, different things like that to make sure that everything in a course is contributing to the success of our students. Working with our professors is gonna be the, the primary part of it because our professors know the material and they're used to teaching in classrooms but sometimes we have to provide guidance to them for how to do it using the online tools and the learning management system. We want things to be consistent across courses. We want it to be consistent across programs and across professors. So providing that overview for them and being here as a resource for them. We're not here to tell them how to teach or what to teach, we're here to aid them in making sure that what they do and how they do it is effective, and again, is something that the students can all use. Some of the projects that I've been able to work on are working with people who are designing courses where they have content that they want to put forward but they have to have somewhere to start. And so we begin by mapping out the objectives of the course. What exactly are you trying to accomplish inside of this course? And from those core objectives, we then build out the content and the format of the course so that everything flows back into those objectives.
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