Instructional Design - Online Course

This series will teach the learner the basics of the instructional design process. Learners will discover how to identify the need for instruction and analyze the content to be taught. Best practices for designing, planning, implementing, and evaluating instruction will help prepare the learner to create instructional programs.

This series is for new trainers and teachers, or anyone who wants to learn the basics of the instructional design process. This online course contains 5 lessons and should take approximately 17 hours to complete.

Lesson 1: Process, Needs, and Roles (3.0) hours

Process, Needs, and Roles teaches you how to differentiate among learning theory, instructional theory, and design plans, identify the elements of the instructional design process, conduct a needs assessment, goal analysis, and performance assessment, define the role of the instructional designer, and identify tactics for working with SMEs and support personnel. This course provides an introduction to learning theory and the instructional design process, tactics for identifying the need for instruction. It also examines the roles of the designer and other personnel in the process. Topics include Learning theory, Instructional design plan, Instructional design process, Needs assessment, Conducting a needs assessment, Goal analysis, Performance assessment, Role of the designer, Client and SME, and Support personnel.

Lesson 2: Analysis and Objectives (4.0) hours

Analysis and Objectives teaches you how to conduct a learner analysis, recognize skills and information necessary to addressing learning needs, organize content for instruction, and determine what learners can do to demonstrate mastery of the content. This course provides an introduction to learner analysis procedures, task and content analysis, as well as writing and classifying learning objectives. Topics include Learner characteristics, Non-conventional learners, Contextual analysis, Task analysis, Topic analysis, Procedural analysis, Conducting a task analysis, Objective domains, Developing instructional objectives, Cognitive domain, Psychomotor and affective domains, and Classifying objects.

Lesson 3: Design Concepts (3.0) hours

Design Concepts teaches you how to determine the best sequence for the content, sequence content to improve the learner's understanding of the material, teach a fact, concept, rule, procedure, interpersonal skill, and attitude, present the content in a way so that each learner will master the objectives, use different preinstructional strategies, implement your instructional strategies, and use text and pictures within the content. This course provides information on sequencing, delivery and instructional strategy, as well as designing the instructional message. Topics include Learning and world-related sequencing, Other sequencing types, Foundations of instructional strategies, Teaching facts and concepts, Teaching principles, rules, and procedures, Teaching interpersonal skills and attitudes, Preinstructional strategies, Design for text, and Using pictures and graphics.

Lesson 4: Planning and Implementation (3.0) hours

Planning and Implementation teaches you how to interpret the design plan and translate it into instruction, differentiate between instructional delivery methods, design structure of an instructional design group or service, create operating policies for an instructional design project, formulate a plan to support and manage a design group, and identify ways to implement and deliver instruction. This course provides an introduction on developing instructional materials, instructional delivery methods, support and management of an instructional design group, as well as implementation decisions as they relate to various aspects of project planning. Topics include Using the design plan, Guidelines for instruction, Group presentations, Self-paced learning, Small-group formats, Instructional design in an organization, Operating policies, Project management, and Planning the implementation.

Lesson 5: Evaluation (4.0) hours

Evaluation teaches you how to define the purpose of evaluation, construct instruments to test knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes, calculate program efficiency, and estimate program costs. This course provides an introduction to the use of evaluation instruments in the instructional design process. This benefits the learner by establishing guidelines for the creation and use of testing material to determine the effectiveness of the instruction. Topics include Purposes of evaluation, Relationships among evaluation types, Validity and reliability, Standards of achievement, Pretesting, Testing knowledge with objective tests, Testing knowledge with constructed-response tests, Attitude assessments, Formative evaluation model, and Program efficiency and cost.