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Instructional materials are the content or information conveyed within a course. These include the lectures, readings, textbooks, multimedia components, and other resources in a course. These materials can be used in both face-to-face and online classrooms; however, some must be modified or redesigned to be effective for the online environment. The best instructional materials are aligned with all other elements in the course, including the learning objectives, assessments, and activities.

Why Is It Important?

Instructional materials provide the core information that students will experience, learn, and apply during a course. They hold the power to either engage or demotivate students. This is especially true for online courses, which rely on a thoughtful and complete collection of instructional materials that students will access, explore, absorb, and reference as they proceed in a course.

Therefore, such materials must be carefully planned, selected, organized, refined, and used in a course for the maximum effect. The planning and selection of instructional materials should take into consideration both the breadth and depth of content so that student learning is optimized.

How to Put Into Practice?

Consider these questions as you select instructional materials for your course:

Is the scope and coverage appropriate?
What will learners read/explore?
What will learners view/hear?
What could learners experience/create?
Will you find or create this material?
Do materials and media support and align with the stated learning objectives?
Is there sufficient interactivity and engagement?

Instructors and/or instructional designers should cast a wide net and aim for a variety of materials to include in their course. At the same time, they should be deliberate with these choices so that the course has the appropriate combination of instructional materials. Below are just a few categories of instructional content to include in an online course.

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Lectures
Digital Media
Open Educational Resources (OERs)
Syllabi
Accessibility & Universal Design
Copyright

Where to Find Resources?

Download a syllabus checklist and template using Quality Matters standards.
Note: These resources link to UW-Madison Google App documents and will require a UW-Madison NetID login. Please read our instructions for logging into UW-Madison Google Apps.
Review UW-Madison's complete guide to creating and selecting accessible course materials.
Open Educational Resources (OERs)
- Start with this introduction to Open Educational Resources.
- Search among the multitude of Open Educational Resources.
- Review in-depth strategies on how to integrate Open Educational Resources.
Copyright Resources:
- Review UW-Madison Library copyright and fair use resources.
- Think through fair use decisions with this useful tool.
- Comply with copyright and fair use guidelines (Blended Toolkit).

Examples of Instructional Materials

The following table provides examples and links to resources and tips for the common types of instructional content.

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Common Instructional Content Types	Examples	Resources/Tips
Print Materials: Readings, Syllabus, Lesson/Assignment Files, Rubrics, Handouts	Assignment Rubrics Discussion Prompt	Create accessible course materials Develop instructions using the online activity worksheet.
Digital Media/Recorded Lectures (Audio or Video): Movies/TV Clips/ YouTube, Podcasts , Screencasts , TEDx Talks , etc.	Plant Pathology 123: The Irish Potato Famine : courtesy of Professor Aurelie Rakotondrafara. Produced with PowerPoint and Articulate Storyline Screencasts: Statistical Programming Experience: courtesy of Professor John Gillett, Produced with CaptureSpace Lite . Narrated PowerPoint using Camtasia courtesy of instructor Lisa Lenertz-Lindemer, Environment, Health, & Safety Motivation YouTube Video TED Talks Podcasts	Screencast information, resources, and more examples How to use CaptureSpace Lite to upload video, create a screencast, and record audio record
Course Introduction Video	Course Introduction Video courtesy of Professor Dietram A.Scheufele Good and Bad Examples of Course Welcome	Tips to create an introduction video
Presentation Materials: Lecture Notes, PowerPoint, Prezi, Adobe Captivate)	Prezi Example: John Hawks – Intro to Anthropology Course (Tip: use the arrows to navigate forward and backward) Adobe Captivate Examples: Activity: Match the skill to the correct level of Bloom's Taxonomy. Activity: How do you define assessment?	How to create effective eLearning presentations PowerPoint for E-Learning
Expert Interviews, Guest Speaker Recordings	Video Example: John Hawks – Tour of Gibraltar caves to explore Neandertal behavior for Human Evolution: Past and Future MOOC. Audio Example: Kris Olds – Interview with Nigel Thrift for Globalizing Higher Education and Research MOOC.	Pedagogical Roles for Video in Online Learning Develop Your Video Presence Tips for instructional design for videos
Case Studies/Scenarios	Articulate storyline example courtesy of the Physical Therapy Department. Produced by the DoIT Academic Technology Online Course Production Team.	UW-Madison content authoring pilot technologies Writing case studies
Educational Games	Civics Games for Change	7 things you should know about games and learning
Simulations	Diffusion Simulation Game Tax Simulation	Uses, trends & implications for simulation technologies in education
Visualizations: Illustrative Pictures, Graphics, Interactive Data	Word Clouds Infographic	Tips for using word clouds in eLearning for reflection and synthesis to enhance critical thinking Tips for using infographics
Third Party Tools and Software	Diigo Example Diigo Outliner Example PowToon Example	Over 100 third-party tools and services for assessment, content, collaboration, & interaction Tools include: Diigo Diigo Outliner PowToon
Role Playing	Thiagi's Training Games	5 ways to use role-playing Role playing ideas and resources Role playing assignment
Student-Created Content	For the most part any of the other content types can also be created by students as an assignment and then could be used as examples in your course.	Tips for adding student-generated content
Expert Blogs	The Rapid E-Learning Blog is a great resource for building learning.	7 things you should know about blogs
Open Educational Resources (OER): Textbooks, Online Articles, Audio or Video Clips, Links to Online Resources, Databases, Examples; Simulations	OERs to explore	Integrating OERs in teaching and learning
Websites/ Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds	Website: EDUCAUSE ® is a nonprofit association committed to advancing higher education.	7 things you should know about RSS Placing RSS feeds into D2L using a widget (includes examples) How to add an RSS feed into Moodle How to add RSS feed to a Canvas announcement
Software & Topical Training	Lynda.com is an online training library of video tutorials that is available for free to UW-Madison staff and students.

Please note: Not all of the listed technologies are officially supported by the university.

Want More?

The "Instructional Materials" deep dive topic provides strategies and best practices to help you find, plan, create, and organize instructional materials and media in an online course.

Topics covered include:

Planning and Selecting Course Content
Types of Instructional Materials
Digital Media Best Practices and Tools
Finding and Using Existing Content
Copyright
Accessible Design

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