Instructional Designing and Teachers’ Role In Creating Effective Environment For Learning

Education is being revolutionized by technology. Institutions of higher education have increasingly embraced online education and the number of students enrolled in distance programmes are rapidly increasing in colleges and Universities globally. With the ever-increasing integration of online learning or e-learning into higher education courses, there is a strong need for practical guidelines and recommendations to facilitate the development and delivery of pedagogically effective e-learning environment.E-education connects students, teachers and experts from around the world, enabling a more collaborative learning experience, introducing pupils to different cultures and allowing them to interact as if they were in the same class room. If quality of e-education is to improve we must also look at the pedagogical issues in online learning. This paper presents effective instructional designs, principles and learning strategies which need be implemented during the instructional analysis, design, delivery and evaluation phases of e-learning environment in higher education in order to optimize their pedagogical quality.