Instructional Design Cycle Applied to an Online Psychology Course

Abstract

Regardless of the discipline, an effective instructional design is critical for development of a high quality online course. Instructional design involves a closed cycle that includes task analysis, design, development, implement, and evaluation. This presentation will demonstrate a showcase of the development of a fully-online course, Physiological Psychology (PSYC 372). This showcase will explain how the lesson was tested in a formative evaluation during the development phase as well as evaluated by the students who took it in a fully online setting. In order to understand how students had learned, a survey which included ten questions using a four-point Likert scale and three open-ended questions was delivered to collect students' feedback on their learning. The data was analyzed and used as an input to support the design criteria and for the revision of the course design.