Instructional Design Services

What is Instructional Design?

The Galter Health Sciences Library offers an array of Instructional Design Services aimed at helping faculty and instructors find the best technological solutions to pedagogical goals.  This ranges from general consultation to specific applications, such as streaming media, to comprehensive projects, such as online tutorials and assessment systems.

Instructional Design can be divided into two categories:

• Consultation and collaboration with faculty and instructors in order to find the best technological solutions to pedagogical goals.
• Designing and creating interactive learning modules and assessment systems that can be delivered online.

What are some possible projects or applications?

• Online Tutorials – Incorporate video, audio and animation into an immersive, modular, asynchronous learning environment.  Tools include HTML, Flash, Javascript, ColdFusion and other Web-based technologies.
• Streaming Media – Convert a video recording of a lecture or procedure into streaming video that can be accessed online.  Streaming video and audio can also be incorporated into online tutorials.
• Video Digitization – The Galter Library offers Video Digitization Drop-off Services to faculty with curricular audio-visual needs.
• Course Management Systems – Use Blackboard to incorporate learning modules, quizzes, streaming media and more into an online environment that is already familiar to many students and users.

How can the Galter Health Sciences Library help?

• Consultation – Schedule a consultation with the Instructional Design Librarian. Jim can help you assess your current pedagogical needs and find opportunities to integrate technology into education.
• Full Project – Work with the Instructional Design Librarian on a long- or short-term project, including the creation and programming of learning modules and assessment systems.

Who is eligible to receive these services?

• Preference will be given to Feinberg School of Medicine faculty.
• A project should be connected to NU in some way, benefiting NU students, faculty and/or staff.
• An initial consultation is always available (and encouraged), even if the project will ultimately not be NU-related.

How do I request Instructional Design Services?

All Instructional Design Services require an initial consultation with Jim Brucker, the Instructional Design Librarian. Contact Jim.