Emerging Instructional Design and Strategies for Online Courses

Abstract

Due to rapid advancement in technology, massive changes have occurred in the educational context. Hence, educational institutions need to reshape their roles and responsibilities according to the new and innovative instructional technologies and approaches for meeting the goals of the digital era by building a digital teaching-learning culture. At this point, the major aspect is the learner, who is at the center of a teaching and learning process, which relies upon instructional design and strategies to deliver the content, and who will become the employee of the future workforce. Therefore, the design and delivery of instruction through innovative instructional strategies based on emerging learning theories are of the utmost importance. This chapter discusses the changing nature of digital teaching and learning from the perspective of delivering content and learning experiences through the effective orchestration of instructional design and strategies that are based on existing and emerging learning theories.