Instructional Design Lab

Where

The Instructional Design Lab is part of the Learning Resources Department. It is located in L117 (ground floor of the library at the windows, between the Tutoring Center and Dean Maureen McCreadie's office).

There are two workstations available for faculty to work on (PC and Mac). Faculty may take advantage of the high-end developement software that is installed on these computers.

Instructional Designer Mary Ellen Bornak is available by appointment to work with you to design and create online courses, and provide strategies and new technologies for use online.

Contact: Mary Ellen Bornak - bornakm@bucks.edu, phone: 215-504-8592

Why

What does an instructional designer do? This is a pretty good explanation of how instructional design can improve your course.

The Instructional Design Lab was created to support faculty in the creation of courses. Instructional Designer Mary Ellen Bornak is available to help with:

  • Design and development of online courses
  • Create, edit digital content
  • Use of innovative teaching techniques
  • Solving course challenges
  • Enhance instruction with audio and video
  • Create learnng objects, podcasts
  • Create tutorials, interactive content
  • Utilize tools of millenial students

The Tools

  • Development: Acrobat Professional, Jing, Camtasia, Snagit, Captivate, Flash, Final Cut, Dreamweaver, and Illustrator
  • Video: Digital Conversion, Streaming, and Editing
  • Audio: Podcasting, iTunes U

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