The most effective kinds of learning initiatives are those which are meticulously designed to bridge performance gaps and consequently, impact business results. Attending this course will allow you to experience a hands-on approach to instructional design principles implemented in a business environment. This course aims at translating learning theories into customized action development initiatives. This allows learners to improve, provides instructors with focus while delivering learning, and eases the job for training and development professionals to recommend best learning solutions. The course is extremely practical mainly aiming at making you highly skillful in every aspect and phase of instructional design.
Course Methodology
This workshop is designed to be interactive and participatory. It includes various pedagogical tools to enable participants to function effectively and efficiently in a multilateral environment. The course will be built on four pedagogical pillars: concept learning (presentations by the consultant), experience sharing (roundtable discussions), practice sessions, and analysis of case studies and scenarios.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Identify the elements of a student-centered learning space and explain the instructional design principles
Develop a comprehensive learning project management plan
Draw a step-by-step journey of learning through task inventories, testing strategies, and ROI measurement tools
Develop learners and instructors content, tools, and material
Guide learning implementations using effective planning and communication
Design a learning evaluation plan that allows for future analysis and continuous improvement
Target Audience
This course is targeted at trainers, instructional designers, training and development professionals, talent management and organization development professionals, and HR practitioners who would like to specialize in instructional design.
Target Competencies
Instructional design
Project management
Data analysis
Learning management
Setting learning objectives
Procedure design
Organizational communication
Course Outline
Introduction to instructional design
The 8 components of an intentional learning space
The teacher-learner continuum
Attributes of learner-centered learning space
Action learning theory
Definition of instructional design
Principles of instructional design
An overview of ADDIE – a step-by-step guide to instructional design
Analyze
Design
Develop
Implement
Evaluate
Analysis of learning interventions (Phase 1)
Objectives of the analysis phase
Challenges instructional designers face during analysis
Validating performance gaps
Determining instructional goals
Analyzing learners
Identifying available resources and potential delivery systems
Nine-step cost estimation process
Composing a project management plan
Designing the learning roadmap (Phase 2)
Objectives of the design phase
Drawing the learning “line of sight”
Building learning/performance task inventory – the essential tasks required to accomplish the instructional goals
Composing performance objectives
Developing a set of testing items
Generating testing strategies
Setting criteria for calculating return on investment
Developing learning content (Phase 3)
Objectives of the development phase
Generating learning content
Understanding Instructional Strategies
Effectively developing beginning, middle, and ending activities
Developing learning media for all types of learners
Developing learner study material
Developing instructor study material
Setting learning solutions for successful implementation (Phase 4)
Objectives of the implementation phase
Identifying potential instructors
Preparing the instructor for facilitating the learning
Train-the-trainer as an implementation strategy
Prepare the learner
Identifying suitable candidates
Effective scheduling of learning
Pre-learning communication with learners
Tracking learners participation tools
Designing evaluation metrics and tools for learning programs (Phase 5)
Objectives of the evaluation phase
Determining evaluation criteria
Kirkpatrick four levels of evaluating learning
15 evaluation tools and how to choose the best
Developing an evaluation plan
Conducting effective evaluation
Analyzing learning data for continuous improvement