Instructional Design Fundamentals

Course Code: IDL01

Program: Curriculum, Instructional Design & Digital Learning

Course Overview: Effective learning does not happen by chance – it is designed. Purposeful instructional design helps educators organise learning so that outcomes, content, activities, and assessment work together as one coherent experience.

This course equips educators with practical strategies to structure lessons and courses, apply instructional design principles, align key learning elements, create engaging experiences, and build course structures that can be improved and scaled.

Learning Outcomes

• Apply instructional design principles
• Structure lessons and courses effectively
• Align objectives, content, and assessment
• Design engaging learning experiences
• Create scalable course structures

Target Audience: Educators, trainers, instructional designers, curriculum developers, and learning-content teams designing structured learning experiences.

Learning Experience: Learners engage through video overviews, audio deep dives, study guides, practical examples, reflection prompts, workbook activities, applied tasks, knowledge checks, and end-of-module quizzes. Activities support learning-needs analysis, design-model selection, lesson and course structuring, alignment, and iterative improvement.

Course Structure: 5 modules / 16 lessons.

Special Feature: Every module concludes with a Putting It All Together audio deep dive that connects the key lessons and supports reflection and practical application.

Pathway Focus: Analyse learning needs. Design structured experiences. Improve and scale delivery.