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This course explores trends and issues of current and historical significance to instructional design, message design, and online learning. The course prepares participants to make and defend policy decisions and become conversant with current trends and issues in the field. Readings will include contributions of key scholars, past and present, and topics covered include the history of instructional design, message design, and distance education. Critical issues, current trends and future prospects for the field are addressed as well as, research, theories, and approaches and their impact on present and future applications of instructional design, message design, and distance education.