Instructional Design Toolkit

This guide includes content adapted with permission from University Library System librarians at the University of Pittsburgh.

What This Guide is Intended to Do
Through accessing the information throughout this guide, you will explore teaching philosophies that will support our collective educational outcomes at Walsh University. Initially, you should focus on learning how to:

• identify your group/class of learners’ needs
• develop learning goals for each instruction session
• create effective lesson plans that connect the learners’ needs with those learning goals
• determine effective assessment strategies for your instruction sessions

In time and with the aid of early adopters willing to learn and apply Instructional Design, our goals are:

• …a series of workshops that offer advice, coaching and collaborative involvement with new faculty to teach them how to be exceptional instructors! And
• …a toolkit (this LibGuide!) that can be used by all librarians and faculty involved with educating. This should focus on resources, tips, and examples that can be drawn upon when considering your instruction sessions.

Quality Matters is an initiative and standard being used at Walsh University for modeling consistency and delivering high educational outcomes to our online community. Faculty that are prepared for a Quality Matters review have better outcomes and get more out of the review process.

Please contact Dr. Amy Heston  for further details about Quality Matters as they relate to Walsh course construction.