Digital Media Best Practices for Online Educators
EDUC-42596
Digital Media Best Practices for Online Educators
No Prerequisite | 10 Weeks
Format: Asynchronous Online with Instructor Feedback and Guidance Throughout
In today’s learning environments—whether in education, corporate training, or nonprofit sectors—your ability to thoughtfully select, design, and integrate digital media can transform the learner experience. This 10-week, fully online, asynchronous course is designed to give you practical skills and a strategic framework for using digital media effectively in online instruction. You’ll gain hands-on experience, expert guidance, and a deeper understanding of what makes multimedia tools work—not just look good—in a variety of learning settings.
Course Details
You’ll explore a range of digital content types including video, audio, graphics, and interactive media. Through applied projects, you'll evaluate which formats work best for specific learning goals, how to ensure accessibility and usability, and how to align media with current instructional design models like ADDIE, UDL, and SAM. Along the way, you'll examine real-world examples and current tools used by educators and trainers—learning to balance technical know-how with pedagogical purpose.
This course is perfect for educators transitioning to online or hybrid instruction, corporate trainers seeking more engaging solutions, or instructional designers looking to strengthen their digital production and planning skills. You'll also receive peer and instructor feedback as you develop media-enhanced content that can be featured in your instructional design portfolio.
What You'll Learn
- Identify and apply best practices for selecting and implementing digital media in learning environments
- Understand diverse tools such as video editors, screen recorders, and audio platforms to create polished educational content
- Design media that aligns with learning objectives and supports multiple modalities and learning styles
- Evaluate the effectiveness, accessibility, and engagement of various digital media assets
- Apply copyright, fair use, and accessibility guidelines when using or creating digital content
- Develop a media-rich instructional module suitable for inclusion in a professional portfolio
- Adapt and tailor digital media strategies for both educational and corporate training contexts
Course Information
Flexible Enrollment: This course is a Required Course for the Instructional Design Professional Certificate but is open to all students, even if you're not enrolled in the Certificate Program.
Academic Calendar: The Academic Calendar shows the open enrollment dates and term start dates for each quarter. Courses do not necessarily start on the first day of the term.
