Instructional design of online courses

Along with technological changes the teaching-learning process has also evolved, with the use of information technology (IT) a huge step has been given in distance education, creating a new term: e-learning, online education or distributed education. New technologies make us develop new teaching methods which could be able to operate on the Internet. These methods require new: teaching materials, pedagogical proposals and roles developed through instructional design; by using this, activities oriented to the accomplishment of objectives of specific learning are planned. The function of instructional design is organizing and structuring courses looking for the applicability of contents and theoretical practical accordance, as well as teaching-learning strategies. Through this, educational abilities are generated in a dynamic manner renewing the teaching praxis; this is, utilizing technology such as electronic boards, generating new pedagogical models (based also in the use of the diversity of technological tools) that conduct to an open field of knowledge.