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The authors, a working group of architects, product designers, engineers and environmental design researchers, collaborated to establish the following Principles of Universal Design to guide a wide range of design disciplines including environments, products, and communications.

Instructional Design Central (IDC) provides instructional designers & learning experience (LX) design professionals access to content and resources.

Guidelines to excellence in instructional design

10 blogs on instructional design

Linked resources of how to use universal design for development, procurement, and use of technology

Thanks for the great resource. I don't think we can ever have enough info on UDI, particularly how tech can support it.

Some good principles to think about here.

I presented a session How to Design on Excellent Online Course at the e-Learning Strategies Symposium conference this past weekend, and share in this post highlights and the presentation slides. I was fortunate to have excellent participants [mostly K-12 educators] that contributed to an interactive a session; a portion of the session was devoted to application, where participants...

A book/web project aimed at a presentation on Online Teaching and Learning, written by an instructional designer at Walden Istitute

The author covers a variety of topics in instructional design and elearning. She uses a variety of media on the site, which keeps it interesting.

Every instructor who has designed his or her own course and taught it has actually conducted two rounds of informal usability tests. For the first round, you were the user, and in the second, your students were. What is usability testing? It is simply a process of observing how users interact with something you have ...

Przyborski provides some guidelines for assisting students with disabilities to be successful in online classes. T. Dudek

In this resource, provided by Southern Oregon University, best practices in online course design are discussed. This is a great resource for educators who are committed to providing a high-quality online experience for students.

At Best Education Sites, we believe that many of our colleges and universities are failing their students in one crucial way - by not providing them with a rich and easy learning experience on their educational sites. As the world of web design progresses at a dizzying pace, education websites seem to be lost in the past, unable or unwilling to keep up. Anyone who has visited edu sites has probably had the experience: clunky user interface, incomprehensible navigation, ugly design, and no content of any real use for students. We are well aware of this situation, and that is why we decided to create this project of ranking the best educational websites: to try to help fix it.

This blog contains information to create an engaging E-Learning course.

Coursesites open course for Blackboard Exemplary course design

An open MOOC course especially for those using Blackboard

Examples of activities that provide an Absorb-Do-Connect sequence for effective online course design.

This site provides helpful instruction for designing test questions.

The idea of storyboarding was developed at the Walt Disney Studio during the early 1930s. storyboard for video production is essentially a large comic of the film or some section of the film produced beforehand to help directors, cinematographers and television commercial advertising clients visualize the scenes and find potential problems before they occur. Often storyboards include arrows or instructions that indicate movement.More recently the term storyboard has been used in the fields of web development, software development and instructional design to present and describe, in written, interactive events as well as audio and motion, particularly on user interfaces and electronic pages.

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