Instructional Design Services

Every semester, thousands of students choose online learning with UT Arlington as an option to expand their educational opportunities. Many of the programs offered by UTA can be completed entirely online. The Center for Distance Education works with UT Arlington faculty, who obtain online course approval to develop and deliver award winning online courses. Watch the video below to learn more about the services CDE offers.

Instructional Designers can assist faculty with all stages of online course design by taking on many different roles - from assisting instructors as they work on their own courses to completely designing a course from the ground up based on faculty content. Instructional Designers at CDE combine knowledge gained from earning graduate degrees in Instructional Design with years of experience working with a wide variety of courses and instructions. Explore the services below for more details and feel free to contact us for a one-on-one meeting. We would like to help you in whatever way we can.

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Consultation

Our instructional instructional design team is ready to help answer all questions about online course design. We offer a one-hour consultation that looks at the basics of designing online courses to engage students in an effective manner. We will cover subjects like course organization, interactions, discussions, active learning, collaboration, community-building, and any questions you might have about course design.

New Course Design

Designing a new online course with the support of CDE requires a development agreement. Please see the Forms page for how to start the process.

We recommend at least one full semester for course development (4 to 6 months).

Course Revision

Revising an existing online course with the support of CDE requires a development agreement. Please see the Forms page for how to start the process.

When revising a course, the development agreement will be based on if the revision is minor (updating less than 50% of the course) or major (updating more than 50% of the course). Explore the revisions levels below.

Minor Revision vs. Major Revision

In General:

  • Requires less then 20 hours of work
  • Results in changes to less than 50% of the course

Includes, but is not limited to:

  • Ongoing course maintenance
  • Instructor information update
  • Minor change in instructional materials: new text edition, updated articles, original instructional materials, etc.
  • Minor update of objectives, assessments, etc. to reflect instructional materials change
  • Introduction or update of some media

In General:

  • Requires more then 20 hours of work
  • Results in changes to more than 50% of the course

Includes, but is not limited to:

  • Major change in instructional materials: new text edition, updated articles, original instructional materials, etc.
  • Major update of objectives, assessments, etc. to reflect instructional materials change
  • Analysis of course/unit objectives to assure alignment with instructional materials and assessments
  • Creation of new cases, projects, discussions, etc.
  • Major course reorganization
  • Addition/analysis of rubrics
  • Introduction or update of majority of media