Instructional Design
Empower your faculty and engage students with cutting-edge, student-centered learning solutions that enhance academic outcomes and drive institutional success.
Where Expertise Drives
Exceptional Learning
At Collegis, instructional design is more than just crafting courses; it’s about creative, transformative learning experiences. Our process is rooted in collaboration, aligning institutional objectives with innovative design strategies to meet the needs of today’s learners. We provide seamless technology integration, expert guidance, and a commitment to quality at every stage.
For decades, Collegis has been a trusted partner, providing innovative instructional design services that support institutions of all sizes in enhancing learning outcomes.
Instructional Design Challenges We Help Overcome
We recognize the unique challenges of creating impactful online programs, from transitioning programs into virtual environments to ensuring student engagement and retention. With decades of higher education instructional design experience serving dozens of institutions, we offer comprehensive solutions that prioritize program cohesion, active learning, and student-centered design.
Common challenges we solve:
- Transition to online program delivery
- Program and course quality
- Student engagement and retention
- Online/hybrid course development
- Learning technology solutions
- Faculty training/coaching
- Learning management systems (LMS) migrations
Build a Customized Solution That Meets Your Precise Needs
We provide comprehensive instructional design services, including:
Our expert team develops cohesive, student-centered courses focusing on learning outcomes and professional readiness. With decades of experience designing online, hybrid, face-to-face, and competency-based education (CBE) courses, we help your institution deliver high-quality learning experiences that drive student success and retention.
We create dynamic multimedia content that enriches the online learning experience and supports diverse learning styles, enhancing student engagement and improving learning outcomes at your institution.
We efficiently produce and deploy high-quality courses aligned with your institutional goals. Working across all major LMS platforms and conducting rigorous quality assurance tests, we ensure courses meet academic and technical standards, enabling your institution to provide a seamless and effective learning experience.
We provide ongoing management and support for learning technology platforms to ensure a high-quality learning technology ecosystem that enhances operational efficiency and supports student success.
We’ll empower your instructors with tools and strategies for effective online teaching, providing ongoing support and guidance to ensure faculty success, adaptability, and alignment with your institution’s academic goals.
Empower Students Through Innovation
Let’s work together to design impactful and innovative educational experiences that engage students, empower faculty, and ensure long-term success.
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FAQs about instructional design services.
We believe effective online courses must prioritize student engagement through interactive activities, align learning outcomes with program objectives, and incorporate multimedia elements to engage students and enhance the learning experience. These courses should also facilitate active participation, collaborative opportunities, and provide students with real-world scenarios to apply their knowledge.
Providing robust training, access to technology, and ongoing support ensures faculty are prepared and confident in delivering online education. This includes workshops on best practices for online pedagogy, hands-on training with learning technologies, and continuous professional development opportunities to address evolving challenges in virtual teaching.
When evaluating instructional design consultants or companies, schools should prioritize firms with higher education expertise, a proven track record in creating engaging and outcomes-driven courses, and an effective process for collaborating with faculty subject matter experts. Companies should also demonstrate flexibility, deep knowledge of learning technologies, and a focus on aligning course design with institutional goals.
Faculty are central to our process. We work collaboratively to integrate their subject matter expertise and pedagogical
approaches into the course design. Through a proven content development process, we ensure that faculty input shapes every stage, resulting in personalized, high-quality courses that reflect their teaching style and academic vision.
We implement active learning strategies that require students to interact with content through problem-solving exercises, discussions, and simulations. Synchronous sessions encourage real-time collaboration, while asynchronous tools like discussion boards and interactive videos offer flexibility. Multimedia and gamified elements further enhance engagement and cater to diverse learning styles.
Yes, our scalable approach combines streamlined production processes with adaptive timelines, ensuring institutions can produce a large volume of courses without sacrificing quality. By leveraging modular design and efficient resource allocation, we enable rapid course development that aligns with institutional growth goals.
At Collegis, ensuring that every online course is accessible and compliant isn’t just a process — it’s a promise. We start by working closely with our partner institutions to define clear standards, embedding accessibility into the very fabric of each course from the start. Our approach integrates expert collaboration, thoughtful design, and rigorous testing, all honed to guarantee that accessibility is not an afterthought but a cornerstone of our educational offerings. Through this commitment and meticulous attention to detail, we ensure our online courses meet the highest standards of accessibility and compliance, empowering every learner to succeed.
With over 20 years of experience building thousands of online courses, we combine our deep technical expertise with an understanding of today’s higher ed challenges. Unlike cookie-cutter solutions, we tailor designs to each institution’s goals, focusing on outcomes-driven courses and innovative applications of learning technology. Our collaborative and flexible approach ensures faculty and institutional needs are prioritized at every step.
Transform Challenges Into Opportunities
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