Instructional Designing - Am I really One?

I am finding that in my country Barbados, the online learning is not becoming accepted as more and more people are feeling 'safe' about learning in such an environment.

I am also finding that instructional designers are not coming strictly from such a background with the qualifications and experiences that are identified in the blogs you mentioned above. More so than ever, we are finding that they - like me- are just regular teachers and in some cases (again like me) they are highly computer literate.

What implications does this have then for our designing of our online courses? I have not come to realise that the courses I have designed have really too much text and not enough links, videos or presentations that would encourage self learning. Units are structured similar to those in face to face teaching and we are providing the student with too much information on the screen and little opportunities for them to pursue their own research.

I hope that I can take away my knowledge from this course and share it with my colleagues.