Welcome!

This is the companion text to the Instructional Design Open ABE Service-MOOC. During this 12-week course, you will engage in a real-world authentic instructional design challenge that centers on the design and development of free open educational resources (OER) for adult basic education. This open service-learning course is facilitated by Designers for Learning, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States. We coordinate service-learning opportunities with those who seek to gain experience creating instruction and other types of performance improvement solutions to support important social causes. In this project-based course, you will gain instructional design experience while developing instructional materials that will be made available for free to adult educators and their learners in the Adult Learning Zone group on OER Commons.

Where do I begin?

• Before you start the course, please read through the Canvas User Orientation, and complete the Canvas Welcome Survey.
• To get started with the course, visit Module 0: Let’s Get Started!