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Education Event: Tips for Impactful Course Design

When
Friday, April 11, 2025
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
Zoom
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42

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Tips for Impactful Course Design

Presented by Dena Fife

Course preview:

In today's environment we have a diverse workforce and "one-size fits-all" training approaches tend to fall short in meeting the needs of this ever-changing workforce. Acknowledging the diverse needs and differences is essential to ensure course and instructional designers are creating engaging and meaningful learning experiences. Inclusive course design benefits and validates all members of an online learning community. Course and instructional designers can cultivate impactful learning experiences within digital settings by taking an inclusive course design approach. Utilizing these tips, course designers will help create a more inclusive, accessible, and equitable online learning environment.

Learners will be able to:

Discuss what inclusive design is and its benefits.
Recognize how bias can impact course design.
Identify Universal Design for Learning principles.
Explore practical tips for incorporating inclusive design practices into course design.

Join us 9:00-10:00am for the educational session and 10:00-10:30am for Q&A and networking.

Bio:

Dena Fife

Dena Fife (she/her) currently serves as an Instructional Services Manager. She has over 15 years of experiencing in instructional design and has worked in both the private and public sector. She provides consultation and leads the development of various online courses, training programs, and micro-learnings. She is the co-chair of a regional workgroup that has been working on the development of competencies based in racial justice principles and designed for public health professionals. Dena is a lifelong learner with an appreciation for how people learn and grow. She is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and accessibility, especially within learning and development. She is passionate about translating knowledge into meaningful learning experiences. Dena began her career writing copy, developing newsletters, and press releases, to facilitating presentations on crisis & emergency risk communication and exercise design, before moving into learning and development. Dena has a BA in Mass Communication & Journalism and an MA in eLearning Design & Implementation.

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