Instructional Web Design

The instructional design fosters students growth in several categories: executive functioning, Social-Emotional, collaboration, content development,  mastery and reflection, and 21st century computer skills. These outcomes are all centered around developing individuals' knowledge and skills set. Students review and reflect on the learning outcomes before beginning the learning process. This is done using instructor created instructional videos. Another element of this design is the use of a personalized checklist that builds both student accountability and executive functioning skills since the point value and weighting of each assignment is listed on the module checklist. In addition, students must reflect on each assignment. These reflection statements are tailored to having students provide connections from the individual assignment to the overall learning outcomes. In addition to the individual checklist, there is an instructor public progress tracker which allows the instructor to publicly keep track of each individual's learning progress within the module. This helps foster communication between instructor and student during individual conferences. In order for students to move onto the next learning module, they must display mastery on that specific content. Finally, they reflect on salient content and self-reflective questions in a module reflection.