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Course Design Quality Checklist

During the design phase of instructional systems development (ISD), an instructional designer must pay attention to innumerable details. The designer needs to be able to step back and assess the quality of the overall scheme once a design is written. The director may also ask design and development team members (or, if no team was formed, people with relevant knowledge and skills) to assess design quality.

The checklist below is admittedly subjective. Everyone will not necessarily agree, for example, on a definition of “adequate” resources. But if a reviewer of the checklist believes that a course lacks one of the desired characteristics, ask that person for suggestions to improve the course design. This ...

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