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Instructional Design

A team of Instructional Designers are available to provide assistance to instructors, administrators and staff. Whether you need to develop a full course or program, review and revise an existing course, or flip all or part of your course, Instructional Designers are here to help. We provide instructional design assistance for fully online, flipped, hybrid, blended and traditional face-to-face courses. If instructors have any questions or concerns about a course, we are available in person, over the phone, by email, or through web-conferencing tools.

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Instructional Design Services

  • Course design/redesign
  • Course review/evaluation
  • Recommendations for student engagement and assessment
  • Guidance on accessibility and ADA compliance
  • Advice for selecting and implementing learning tools
  • Video and multimedia assistance
  • Consultations for customized services

Benefits of Working with an Instructional Designer

Since instructional designers utilize evidence based pedagogical models and principles, working with an instructional designer can:

  • Provide strategies to humanize the course (teaching, social and cognitive presence)
  • Increase student engagement and success
  • Ensure accessibility
  • Enhance course organization and usability
  • Improve consistency within a course and across a program
  • Strengthen quality of lectures and other instructor-created material

Our instructional designers are happy to answer any questions and help solve any issues regarding fully online, on-campus, or Hyflex courses. Please do understand that an instructional designer will not "push" the use of a tool or activity simply for the sake of using technology. They are here to help determine what will appropriately and effectively meet pedagogical needs. If a tool does not work effectively for a course, the instructional designer will suggest alternatives.

UND Instructional Designers

The Teaching Transformation and Development Academy (TTaDA) has a team of five Instructional Designers and one Digital Media Instructional Designer available to help faculty, staff and graduate students. Each of our instructional designers is assigned to serve as the primary ID for one or more of the colleges.  Feel free to contact your ID directly or use the Request a Consultation link above.  Please note the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences has their own Instructional Designer.

TTaDA Instructional Design Team

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Elizabeth Becker, Ph.D.
Instructional Design Coordinator, TTaDA
Specialties: College of Education & Human Development
  • elizabeth.becker@UND.edu
  • 701.777.2737
  • O'Kelly 337
Katie Benton
Katie Benton
Instructional Designer, TTaDA
Specialties: College of Arts & Sciences and John D. Odegaard School of Aerospace Sciences
  • catherine.benton@und.edu
  • 701.777.6403
  • O'Kelly 339
Kristi Embry
Kristi Embry, Ph.D.
Instructional Designer, TTaDA
Specialties: College of Nursing & Professional Disciplines, Office of Extended Learning (SPEA/Non-Credit), and School of Medicine and Health Sciences
  • kristi.embry@und.edu
  • 701.777.2738
  • O'Kelly 331
Naomi Hanson
Naomi Hanson
Instructional Designer, TTaDA
Specialties: Nistler College of Business & Public Administration
  • naomi.hanson@UND.edu
  • 701.777.3448
  • O'Kelly 333
Coming Soon
Bridget Brooks, Ph.D.
Instructional Designer, TTaDA
Specialties: College of Engineering & Mines and School of Law
  • bridget.brooks@UND.edu
  • 701.777.0843
  • O'Kelly 335
Jonathan Puhl
Jonathan Puhl
Digital Media Instructional Designer, TTaDA
Specialties: Digital Media Studio
  • jonathan.puhl@UND.edu
  • 701.777.5824
  • O'Kelly 341

 

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