OUr Services: Custom Instructional Design for Improvement of Online Course Effectiveness
It's Edumentary offers a unique model for online course development that provides a creative spark when partnering with universities, companies, and non-profit organizations to design and improve the online and classroom-based learning experiences for students and lifelong learners.
Instructional design has become an increasingly crowed field of start-ups, tools, and platforms that focus on mass-produced, one-size-fits-all learning solutions that may scale the content but not grow the learning. With the "Edumentary Approach," we design truly custom experiences which take a deep-dive into the curriculum and identify a mix of instructional strategies to guide and motivate learners at different stages in their learning journey. When choosing tools and technologies for a course, we also don't just look for the latest/greatest tech, but what will be the most effective for applying and inspiring learning.
Find out how It's Edumentary is truly unique, effective, powerful and enjoyable!
Online Course Design & Development
Designing effective online teaching begins with effective planning and identifying objectives, requirements, and expectations. There is no one-size-fits all approach to the course planning and design process. We take an inquiry-based approach to helping our clients plan for teaching online. This approach that emphasizes collaboration and exploration results in course design that expands the capacities and creativity of both the instructor and the students.
Designing & Implementing Digital Learning Tools
Educational technologies are being developed and pushed at a speed beyond our capacity to evaluate them and fully weigh their potential benefits and risks. When making decisions about the use of a technology for instruction, we help our clients think through the questions they might not know to ask to better determine whether a digital learning tool is appropriate for their needs. We find out what our clients are trying to accomplish first, then find the right tool, rather than trying to figure out a use case for a shiny new tool and then struggle to adapt the instruction to the tool.
Creating an Online Course from Off-Line Curriculum
A common request we receive is to re-design an online course from existing curriculum. We help our clients see the opportunities and challenges that are inherent in the course design or re-design process and suggest strategies for translating off-line instruction to online instruction. Whether starting from existing curriculum or from scratch, we specialize in helping our clients transform lecture slides, activities, and assessments into engaging and accessible content that invites critical thinking, interactivity, exploration, and collaboration. We don't just move your content online, we improve its effectiveness for online delivery.
Improve the Design & Effectiveness of your LMS or Educational Website
Your bigger opportunity, in addition to improved course design, may be through better leveraging the features, structure, and tools of your Learning Management System (LMS). No matter the learning management system your school or organization uses, we can help you make the most of it by bringing graphic design, animation, and technical expertise to help you create effective and user-friendly online learning spaces by more fully leveraging a learning platform's capabilities and, when appropriate, integrating complementary educational technologies to enhance the platform's native features and tools.
