Pivoting Your Instruction: A Guide to Comprehensive Instructional Design for Faculty

This practical guide for college and university instructors explains how to design and prepare your courses to be adaptable for a full range of learning environments―whether that’s online, hybrid, or face-to-face traditional campus teaching.

Author Bruce M. Mackh unpacks a comprehensive instructional design approach to curriculum and instruction that is suitable for all modalities and allows you to pivot quickly, regardless of how the course will be delivered. Chapters provide quick takeaways and cover challenges and opportunities, adapting high-impact practices across instructional models and fostering a culture of care. The book also encourages faculty members to adopt a student-centered mindset as they employ the principles of Design Thinking, User Experience Design, Instructional Design, and Learning Experience Design to create a high-quality course.

The strategies at the heart of this book will help both new and experienced faculty save time, ensure instructional continuity during transitions, and achieve excellence in teaching.

Bruce M. Mackh is the Associate Vice-President of Teaching and Learning at Chadron State College in Chadron, USA. He is the author of Higher Education by Design: Best Practices for Curricular Planning and Instruction (Routledge, 2018).