Instructional Design Certification

MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION TO INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN (ID)

Session

Objectives

Method

Time

Getting started

·         What is Instructional Design

·         Role of Instructional Designer.

·         Career prospects of an Instructional Designer

·         New trends in ID and eLearning.

·         Define what is Instructional Design and the role of an instructional designer.

·         Define career prospects of an instructional designer

·         List the new trends of Instructional Design and eLearning.

Reference material on Learning Management System, Facilitated Discussion and Assessments 

Self-Paced Learning with 2* 2 hours of facilitated session from 7 am to 9 am (Saturday and Sunday)

MODULE 2: PRINCIPLES AND THEORIES OF COGNITION AND INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN AND APPLICATION

Cognition and Instructional Designing

·       Attention

·       Learning

·       Memory

·      Neuroscience of Attention, Learning and Memory

·      Application of Cognitive Principles in Instructional Designing

Theories and Models of Instructional Designing

·         Human Performance Model

·         Rummler’s 5 Factors – Application in Need Analysis

·         Mager and Pipe’s Performance Analysis

·         Bloom’s Taxonomy

·         ARC's Model of creating Instruction Design (For MACRO level of ID)

·         Gagne’s 9 Events of Instruction (For MICRO Level of ID)

·         Kirk Patrick’s model of training evaluation

·     Comprehend some of the key principles of cognition and instructional design and learn how to apply the same while creating content.

Reference material on Learning Management System, Facilitated Discussion and Assessments 

Self-Paced Learning with 2* 2 hours of facilitated session from 7 am to 9 am (Saturday and Sunday)

MODULE 3: STAGES IN THE METHODOLOGY OF ID AND APPLICATION

Introduction to ADDIE

·         What is ADDIE?

·         What is Rapid Prototype?

·         ADDIE vs Rapid Prototype

·         Understanding ADDIE deeper

Analysis

·         Different Aspects of Analysis.

·         Learner Characteristics Analysis – Demographic (Age, Gender, Race), Aptitude, Talent, Skills, Knowledge, Education, Previous training)

·         Review a Need Analysis Document.

·         Work setting Analysis - ID environment. Delivery environment and Application environment

·         Job Analysis - What people do, how do they do and what results do they achieve

·         Task Analysis - Cognitive Tasks and Action Task

·         Content Analysis - Classification in 5 ways - Fact, Concept, Process, Procedure and Principle.

·         Review a Need Analysis Document.

Design

·         Explain the use of a design document

·         Distinguish between Coarse Goals and Learning Objectives

·         Practice writing course goals and learning objectives

·         Importance of objectives

·         Types of objectives - TLO and EO

·         Components of Instructional objective - Condition, Task and Standard

·         Domains of Learning

·         Application of Bloom's Taxonomy in creating objectives

·         Typical problems faced while writing objectives

·         Sequence Learning Objectives – Different Approaches

·         Instructional Strategy - macro vs micro

·         Create mind map of the content structure

·         Creating the flow - Using Transition word, repeating keywords, unambiguous language

·         How to design reusable learning object (RLO) using instructional models (ARCs and Gagne)

Development

·         Tasks leading to creating a storyboard

·         Content Generation a case study

·         Identify Course Flow and Content Flow

·         Chunk Content

·         Sequence Content

·         Identify Gaps

·         Add missing content to fill gaps

·         Suggest / Add graphics

·         Rewrite

·         Fine Tune Learning Objectives and Summary

·         Add Assessment questions

·         Create the storyboard

·         Developing Facilitator guide, participant guide and Training slide decks and researching on appropriate training activities.

·         Right selection of reinforcement activities

·         Readability and Accessibility of content

How to write effectively

·         Key writing elements

·         Various forms of writing

·         Different stages of writing a longer piece

·         Process of collating and sorting ideas

·         Organize writing ideas

Implementation

·         Implementing classroom training

·         Implementing eLearning training

·         Virtual Instructional Lead Training (VLTs)

·         Implementation Checklist

Evaluation

·         Understanding and implementing Kirk Patrick model

·         Pre-training, Summative and Formative evaluation

·         Criterion Reference assessment ROI

·         Distinguish between ADDIE and RAPID prototype models.

·         Recognize the different stages of ADDIE and application of the same.

Reference material on Learning Management System, Facilitated Discussion and Assessments 

Self-Paced Learning with 2* 2 hours of facilitated session from 7 am to 9 am (Saturday and Sunday)

MODULE 4: ELEARNING PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATION

·         About eLearning

·         6 Principles of eLearning

·         Recognize importance of QA in eLearning

·         Basic understanding of Gamification in eLearning

·         Characteristics of learning games

·         Learning Management System

·         Compatibility Standards In eLearning

·         What is MOOC?

·         What is the instructional designing approach towards developing MOOC?

·         Define eLearning?

·         Identify the principles of eLearning.

·         Practice application of these principles

·         Describe characteristics of learning games

·         Explain Gamification in Learning

·         Describe the functioning of a Learning Management System (LMS)

·         Explain SCORM standard for eLearning

·         Comprehend what is a MOOC and the ID approach towards developing a MOOC

Reference material on Learning Management System, Facilitated Discussion and Assessments 

Self-Paced Learning with 2* 2 hours of facilitated session from 7 am to 9 am (Saturday and Sunday)

MODULE 5: TECHNOLOGY KNOWLEDGE

·         What are Rapid Authoring Tools?

·         Basic introduction to feature of a few tools – Photoshops, Flash, Illustrator, Articulate Storyline 2, Articulate Studio, Adobe Captivate and Camtasia

·         Identify what rapid authoring tools are?

·         Distinguish between some features of commonly used tools.

Reference material on Learning Management System, Facilitated Discussion and Assessments 

Self-Paced Learning with 2* 2 hours of facilitated session from 7 am to 9 am (Saturday and Sunday)

PROJECT WORK

·         Participants would be expected to create a training course using ID principles and methodology and submit to Strengthscape for evaluation within 20 days of completing contact classes.

·         Final assessment to be completed on LMS (to be completed in 1 hour, single attempt)

·         Create learning content by applying the learning assimilated over the last 3 days