Course Redesign: Building Stronger Virtual Teams
For this project, I was tasked with enhancing a project from one of my prior courses and adding multimedia aspects to it. I chose to redesign "Building Stronger Virtual Teams." The initial course was designed using aspects of Bandura’s Social Learning Theory and Merrill’s Principles of Instructional Design.
Audience
This course was designed for adults in a corporate environment
Tools Used
Talent LMS, Articulate Rise, Canva
Time Spent
This was developed over the span of 11 weeks. I spent roughly 2-3 hours per week.
Project Overview
Building Stronger Virtual Teams is a self-paced professional development course I designed in TalentLMS to help learners strengthen trust, engagement, and collaboration in remote and hybrid environments. The course combines research-based communication strategies, authentic simulations, and reflective activities to guide learners in applying effective team-building and leadership techniques in their own workplace settings.
This course was developed as a multimedia redesign project in which I expanded upon an instructional experience I created in a prior course. My goal was to enhance the original learning solution by integrating interactive multimedia elements, improving learner engagement, and aligning the course more closely with evidence-based multimedia design principles.
Design Process
I structured the course around four cohesive modules:
Communication Strategies in Remote Settings: Introduces key communication concepts through the TEDx talk “The Art of Communicating Effectively for Hybrid and Online Work.” Learners explore communication barriers, digital presence, and strategies for fostering clarity and connection in virtual environments through guided prompts and applied reflection.
Building Engagement in Virtual Teams: Features the article “Effective Engagement Strategies for Management to Increase Job Satisfaction Within Virtual Teams,” accompanied by structured guiding questions, knowledge checks, and a reflection activity focused on motivation, morale, and inclusive engagement practices.
Virtual Team-Building Practices: Includes fully interactive branching scenarios that place learners in the role of a remote team leader navigating real workplace challenges. Learners make decisions related to psychological safety, participation, and team dynamics, seeing how their choices influence outcomes. This module also incorporates a simulated Zoom team-building assignment to extend practice into applied planning.
Action Planning – Applying What You’ve Learned: Concludes with a downloadable Action Plan template and summative project guiding learners to select, implement, and evaluate team-building strategies within their own professional contexts.
Instructional Design Highlights
Redesigned a previously developed course by integrating multimedia and interactive learning components.
Developed original course content for each unit, ensuring it functions as a complete, stand-alone learning experience.
Designed multiple custom branching scenarios to simulate real-world leadership decision-making in virtual teams.
Integrated interactive knowledge checks, reflections, and discussion prompts to promote active learning and social engagement.
Applied Merrill’s First Principles of Instruction and Social Learning Theory to support demonstration, practice, feedback, and collaboration.
Incorporated multimedia elements including video, scenario-based learning, and guided application activities.
Ensured accessibility through captioned videos, transcripts, downloadable PDFs, and screen-reader-friendly formatting.
Applied Mayer’s multimedia principles (coherence, signaling, redundancy, contiguity) to reduce cognitive load and enhance learner focus.
Reflection
This project allowed me to build upon an existing instructional foundation and transform it into a more immersive, multimedia-rich learning experience. By revisiting the original design, I was able to critically evaluate opportunities for deeper engagement, stronger interactivity, and improved learner support.
I went beyond baseline course requirements to include authentic instructional content, immersive decision-making scenarios, and accessibility-forward design. The result is a fully functional course that learners could realistically complete and apply in their professional environments.
The development process reinforced my belief that strong instructional design blends structure with creativity. Grounding the experience in research while designing for usability, engagement, and real-world transfer allowed me to create a learning solution that feels both intuitive and meaningful. This project represents my commitment to designing workplace learning that not only informs—but transforms team dynamics and performance.
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