Why should I participate in this course?

Gain Experience for Good

Through your participation in this course, you will further your own professional development in instructional design and evaluation, while offering your service contributions to a grossly underserved educational segment of adult learners and instructors. In the U.S. alone, 30 million adults do not have high school credentials, but less than 2 million are currently supported within federally funded adult education programs. While we have a U.S.-centric focus on this project, support for adult education is a need around the globe, and the open educational resources created on on this project can be adapted for other contexts.

Earn an Instructional Evaluation Service Badge



Upon successful completion of this course, you will earn an Instructional Evaluation Service Badge to acknowledge that you have completed an instructional Evaluation process to develop an educational resource to support a social need. In other words, you have gained experience for good! To earn an Instructional Evaluation Service Badge, you must:

Complete the requirements in Canvas Network

Submit a final deliverable meeting all of the requirements

Earn a Certificate of Recognition

Upon successful completion of this course, you will also receive a Certificate of Recognition* from Designers for Learning recognizing your instructional evaluation service contribution. Successful completion will be based on:

Your successful completion of all Instructional Design Service Badge requirements (see requirements above)

Your submission of a complete final deliverable meeting all of the requirements

* Please note that we do not offer a letter of reference or other certifications based on this experience given the relatively short duration of the project (i.e. an estimated 40 hours of design work), and the anticipated number of participants.

Expand your CV, Resume, or Portfolio

We are often asked how participants in our projects should describe this service-learning experience in a CV, resume, or portfolio. Some suggestions are to: