Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Instructional Design Focused on Google’s Big Ideas, Universidad de los Andes

Discover how Grandes Ideas courses improve flexibility and learning success. Our approach aligns needs with learning outcomes using active pedagogical competence and digital technology.

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Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

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Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Opportunities to make educational environments more flexible from a pedagogical perspective.
  • Using technologies such as gamification and learning analytics.
  • Adapting the content to educational needs at different levels.
  • Renewing the educational model and expanding the reach.
  • Learning to understand.
  • Active pedagogy.
  • Matching means and resources to goals.
  • Authentic assessment of learning.
  • Use of various media and models of digital technologies.

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Teachers
  • Educational guides
  • School principals
  • Educational content developers
  • Pedagogy experts
  • Educational technology professionals
  • Educational consultants
  • Course designers
  • Educational project managers
  • Educational researchers

Internship – 3-part course series

This program is designed for educators who wish to enrich or upgrade their teaching work, regardless of the level, discipline, or teaching model in which they operate.

Interests

  • Opportunities to make educational environments more flexible from a pedagogical perspective.
  • Using technologies such as gamification and learning analytics.
  • Adapting the content to educational needs at different levels.
  • Renewing the educational model and expanding the reach.

What is learned in this program can be transferred to a variety of educational innovations aimed at transforming teaching.

Hands-on Learning Project

Students will design a course of interest to them, using a central ideas approach and active pedagogy mediated by digital technology. This will be done over the first two courses, with interim submissions and quality control through rubrics.

At the end of the second course, the design will be able to undergo peer evaluation, with scoring according to the same rubric.

During the third course, they will design a teaching unit for the designed course, maintaining the same approach. They will apply the pedagogical principles and key ideas that guide the program.

  • Learning to understand
  • Active pedagogy
  • Matching means and resources to goals
  • Authentic assessment of learning
  • Use of different media and models of digital technologies

There will be self-reviewed submissions and there will be a final, peer-reviewed evaluation.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Analyzing the context for instructional design

Course 1 – 16 hours

What you will learn:

  • RO 1.1 Express a supported opinion on when it is worthwhile/necessary (again) to plan courses delivered using digital technology within your teaching
  • RO 1.2 Determine educational needs for the course, based on an analysis of the factors and objectives, conducted at relevant institutes of influence.

Skills you will gain:

  • Integrate instructional design with preferred educational needs
  • Identify and prioritize educational needs

Course 2 – 30 hours

What you will learn:

  • RO 2.1 Define the main modules of the course and the main ideas embodied in them.
  • RO 2.2 Present the assessment component of the program, in accordance with what has been defined regarding what is to be taught.
  • RO 2.3 Make decisions about the pedagogical strategy to implement and how to support it with digital technology

Skills you will gain:

  • Using central ideas to plan curriculum and instruction toward known goals
  • Student-centered educational planning with the integration of digital technology
  • Conducting authentic educational assessment that uses technology

Course 3 – 26 hours

What you will learn:

  • RO 3.1 Define key questions whose answers will enable a transition from student expectations to desired achievements.
  • RO 3.2 Prepare diagnostic, formative, and summative assessment tools for each module of the course, with the intention of reinforcement.
  • RO 3.3 Implement the pedagogical strategy defined for the course, using relevant and feasible technologies.

Skills you will gain:

  • Selective use of digital technologies to support active learning strategies
  • Designing instruction that focuses on student activity on relevant learning objects
  • Integrating authentic and traditional educational assessment as needed