The FIU Online Learning Design team is here to support your online teaching success. Our team provides focused consulting services that best prioritize our faculty’s needs in support of course design and maintenance. The learning design team can help an instructor:
- Apply teaching strategies to your specific learning environment and requirements, in either hybrid or fully online instruction modalities
- Develop learning objectives and align them with desired assessment strategies
- Increase learner collaboration through group activities and communications technologies
- Select the technology best suited to learning types and course delivery methods
- Adapt or help produce the best instructional materials for your desired course methodology and outcomes
- Provide professional development programs that offer the latest in pedagogical and technological applications in online course design and delivery
- Navigate the online quality standards (Quality Matters)
New Online Course Design
A new online course is defined as the unique combination of an instructor with a course that has not been taught online in the past 5 years. All new instructor/course pairings are assigned to an instructional designer who will consult and guide the instructor through the online course design process.
If you are on the schedule to teach a new online or certified hybrid course, an instructional designer will contact you three months prior to the start of the semester to begin providing focused consultation throughout the design and development of your course. The process entails ensuring that your course aligns with established best practices.
The Learning Design & Development Process
- Concept Consultation: The instructional designer applies extensive expertise to generate conceptual frameworks that best suit the learning outcomes of your course.
- Design: An instructional designer helps map the online environment using evidence-based pedagogy that optimizes how online students interact with your subject matter.
- Production: The instructional designer then works with you and multimedia personnel to produce your course content into online learning assets.
- Delivery: Once the semester starts, the instructional designer remains available to provide training and support for course management.
- Quality Assurance: Once production is complete and the course is running, you may opt-in to the Quality Matters certification process.
Online Course Maintenance
FIU Online also provides course development support to instructors who have already designed and developed fully online or certified hybrid courses.
The FIU Online instructional design team can help you get your Canvas course ready for a new semester. Contact your assigned team for help with:
- Copying a course from a past semester
- Combining (or cross-listing) multiple courses
- Consulting on setting up or refreshing assignments
- Training on applying DRC-requested accommodations
Online Course Enhancements
Instructors wishing to enhance an existing course to meet the Quality Matters standards or significantly update their course design can opt into a one-to-one instructional design consultation by following the instructions on our Online Course Enhancement Opt-In page . Note: Instructors with expired QM-certified courses can also opt-in to have their courses re-evaluated and re-certified to meet the standards of the 7th edition rubric.
Lookup My FIU Online Instructional Designer
Faculty can easily find their assigned instructional designer through the canvas.fiu.edu website. Log in to submit a Canvas Help request, and select "Lookup My FIU Online Instructional Designer." This feature allows FIU Online instructors to view their assigned instructional designer for the current and upcoming semester, along with their photo, email, and phone number. Instructors can also use the same page to submit a request directly to their instructional designer. Log in to submit a Canvas Help request and connect with your instructional designer today!