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The Instructional Design team provides services to help faculty design quality face-to-face and online courses. Whether developing a new course or program, transitioning courses to an online format, improving an existing course, meeting accessibility and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) standards, or learning how to use various learning technologies, the designers have the skills to help.

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We Can Help You…

Design New Courses

Designing a new course or moving a course to a new format, such as face-to-face to online, can be overwhelming. We are here to help! Work with an instructional designer (ID) to design and develop courses that promote the achievement of learning objectives through engaging learning activities, assessments, and instructional materials. Discuss with an ID which learning technologies are best to implement for your course, how to incorporate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, and how to make content more accessible.

OLT also offers a Designing Your Course workshop and online course. View the Workshops page for more information.

Improve Existing Courses

Brainstorm ideas for improving your existing courses. Discuss ideas for options for content delivery, assessments, or activities. This can be anything from one specific project or how to improve the entire course.

Solve Problems During Course Delivery

You are not alone after the course is built. Feel free to reach out to an ID any time during the semester. Instructors often reach out with questions such as how to best utilize the SpeedGrader and how to moderate quizzes to provide a student accommodation.

Use Learning Technologies Effectively

OLT offers several workshops on Canvas and other learning technologies such as Harmonize and PlayPosit. View the Workshops page for more information.

Testimonials

  • The Office of Learning Technologies helped me structure my course design efforts much more effectively. By working on a regular schedule with a course designer, I was able to make a sustained effort toward revising my course rather than waiting until the last minute. After working with the Office of Learning Technologies, I have not only a much better designed online course, but also a set of templates for structuring future courses—and not just online courses. eLearning offers a unique, hands-on, service that is tailored to the concrete needs of teachers who need help developing or revising a specific course.

    Andrew Keitt, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor Department of History
  • The design team of Learning Technologies are experts in their craft and respect my position as a content expert.  They are the easiest people to work with on campus!   They have assisted me in becoming a better instructor and I appreciate their support and great ideas.

    Martha Earwood, MSCJ

    Teaching Assistant Professor J. Frank Barefield, Jr. Department of Criminal Justice
  • From the office assistant to the head of the department, each and every one of those individuals love being there and they love helping the UAB community. I am less than proficient in anything technology-related and the instructional designers are all amazing at breaking down super complex and unfamiliar ideas into something that not only makes sense but also makes sense in your course. I have been teaching, creating, maintaining, and developing courses for quite a while and I have never enjoyed or learned so much from the process. I cannot recommend the Office of Learning Technologies enough.

    Victoria Dawkins, MSLS

    Instruction Librarian Mervyn Sterne Library 

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