Build Engaging Courses Faster: A Rapid Deployment Model for Instructional Design
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Copyright: 2026
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Five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, online courses are in more demand than ever. While asynchronous and synchronous modalities picked up steam in the 2010s, people became used to earning degrees and completing job training from home after being forced into online learning and work when society shifted almost overnight in March 2020.
Many don't want to return to the way things were. The new normal is, well, just normal. Instructional designers are having a hard time keeping up with course design requests for new classes, as well as those based on an in-person format. Online learning has quickly become a form of traditional learning.
With over a decade of online teaching that includes thousands of students taught in over a hundred courses at top-tier graduate schools, as well as corporate and government training, I also have had the opportunity to design most of these courses. This experience has evolved my instructional design approach, honing it to where I can replicate it quickly and crystallizing it into what I call the “rapid deployment model.” This process certainly was put to the test during the emergence of COVID-19 where, within days, I helped a number of schools stand-up online courses to replace in-person ones.
Build Engaging Courses Faster: A Rapid Deployment Model for Instructional Design is a how-to roadmap that provides tried and true architecture to support an online class. From the discovery process and identifying the learning challenge to formulating SMART objectives and creating content and assignments, as well as applying a number of learning theories, engaging with students and course evaluation, this book helps online learning professionals construct effective and innovative courses within a more efficient timeframe.
Matt Charles is the former deputy spokesperson for the University of Virginia during and after the tragic Unite the Right rally in 2017, and many other crises. Prior to this position, he served the UVA Darden School of Business as director of media relations, helping the school earn a #1 ranking through his reputation management work. A frequent media spokesperson, crisis management/strategic communication professor and former New York City special investigator working sex and drug crimes involving children, he has provided training for the US Department of State, National Criminal Justice Command College and Drug Enforcement Administration, served on a working group for Washington, DC universities (Consortium 120) to combat gun violence, and has received Fulbright support. Professor Charles provides strategic counsel for institutions of higher education, government organizations, nonprofits, corporations, and small businesses and startups. He teaches, or has taught, for Georgetown University, the University of Virginia, American University, Northeastern University, the University of Maryland Global Campus, the University of Iowa, Rutgers University, the University of Florida, the University of Alabama and Purdue University.
Five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, online courses are in more demand than ever. While asynchronous and synchronous modalities picked up steam in the 2010s, people became used to earning degrees and completing job training from home after being forced into online learning and work when society shifted almost overnight in March 2020.
Many don't want to return to the way things were. The new normal is, well, just normal. Instructional designers are having a hard time keeping up with course design requests for new classes, as well as those based on an in-person format. Online learning has quickly become a form of traditional learning.
With over a decade of online teaching that includes thousands of students taught in over a hundred courses at top-tier graduate schools, as well as corporate and government training, I also have had the opportunity to design most of these courses. This experience has evolved my instructional design approach, honing it to where I can replicate it quickly and crystallizing it into what I call the “rapid deployment model.” This process certainly was put to the test during the emergence of COVID-19 where, within days, I helped a number of schools stand-up online courses to replace in-person ones.
Build Engaging Courses Faster: A Rapid Deployment Model for Instructional Design is a how-to roadmap that provides tried and true architecture to support an online class. From the discovery process and identifying the learning challenge to formulating SMART objectives and creating content and assignments, as well as applying a number of learning theories, engaging with students and course evaluation, this book helps online learning professionals construct effective and innovative courses within a more efficient timeframe.
Matt Charles is the former deputy spokesperson for the University of Virginia during and after the tragic Unite the Right rally in 2017, and many other crises. Prior to this position, he served the UVA Darden School of Business as director of media relations, helping the school earn a #1 ranking through his reputation management work. A frequent media spokesperson, crisis management/strategic communication professor and former New York City special investigator working sex and drug crimes involving children, he has provided training for the US Department of State, National Criminal Justice Command College and Drug Enforcement Administration, served on a working group for Washington, DC universities (Consortium 120) to combat gun violence, and has received Fulbright support. Professor Charles provides strategic counsel for institutions of higher education, government organizations, nonprofits, corporations, and small businesses and startups. He teaches, or has taught, for Georgetown University, the University of Virginia, American University, Northeastern University, the University of Maryland Global Campus, the University of Iowa, Rutgers University, the University of Florida, the University of Alabama and Purdue University.