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Memorial Field House
Mail Stop 129
Phone: 419.530.8835
Fax: 419.530.8836
Designing Your Course
Instructional designers work collaboratively with faculty in the design and development of online and blended learning courses. They also work with Creative Services staff and educational technologists in the development and delivery of courses to ensure Best Practices are seamlessly incorporated.
Instructional designers can meet with you to:
- Craft a course development plan
- Discuss learning objectives for online and blended learning courses
- Recommend design choices - such as course structure, learning activities, assessment strategies, and orientation guidelines - which align with learning objectives
- Recommend appropriate technologies that can enhance student learning
- Provide guidance regarding copyright and accessibility issues
- Discuss strategies for building and facilitating online communities in your courses
- Discuss strategies for promote academic integrity online
- Provide guidance regarding management of the online workload
- Collaborate with Creative Services staff in the creation of multimedia learning objects for optimal usability
- Collaborate with educational technologists regarding the effective use of technology
- Discuss course design evaluation results and Quality Matters standards for course
revision
Request a Consultation
Instructional designers hold office hours Monday through Thursday each semester. Faculty and teaching assistants for online and blended courses are welcome to stop by for an instructional design consultation, or to schedule an appointment with them to discuss Quality Matters and Best Practices for online learning.
Phoebe Ballard, M.Ed.
Sr. Instructional Designer
419-530-4379
Phoebe.Ballard@utoledo.edu
Memorial Field House 3040C
Designer for:
Education, Health Science and Human Service: HEAL, LGL, RCRT, RCBS, SOCW
Honors College
Languages, Literature and Social Science: AFST, COMM, DST, ENGL, GEPL, LST, MLS,
PSC, WGST
Law
Visual and Performing Arts
Office Hours:
Thursday: 10 AM – 12 PM
Claire Stuve, M.A.
Instructional Designer
Claire.Stuve@utoledo.edu
Main Campus (M,W,F): 419-530-4383 | Memorial Field House 3045D
Health Science Campus (T,R): 419-383-5816 | Collier Building 4204
Designer for:
Engineering
Medicine and Life Sciences
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Nursing
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Office Hours:
Mondays (Main Campus): 1 – 3 pm
Tuesdays (Health Science Campus): 10 am – 12 pm
Mingli Xiao, Ph.D.
Instructional Designer
419-530-4390
Mingli.Xiao@utoledo.edu
Memorial Field House 3040B
Designer for:
Adult and Lifelong Learning
Education, Health Science and Human Service: CI, CIEC, COUN, EDA, EDP, ETPT, HIM,
HCAR, KINE, PED, RESM, SLP, SPED, SPSY, TSOC
Languages, Literature and Social Science: CHIN, ECON, HIST, JPAN, PHIL, PSY, REL,
SOC, SPAN
Office Hours:
Tuesday: 1 PM – 3 PM
Peter You, Ph.D.
Director of Faculty Support and Special Projects
419-530-4016
Peter.You@utoledo.edu
Memorial Field House 3045B
Designer for:
Business and Innovation
Education, Health Science and Human Service: CRIM
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