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Introduction to Instructional Design for e-Learning 1 or 2 Day Training Course

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• Who will benefit
• Learning objectives
• Meet your trainer
• Course contents

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This course is designed to answer the question of how e‑learning courseware can best be structured to facilitate effective, performance-enhancing e-learning.  Using a blend of theory and practice, this course takes you through the instructional design process by working on a real project which you bring to the classroom.

Who Will Benefit?

Those responsible for designing and producing e-learning programmes, or who need to know how to assess online learning materials. Trainers, instructional designers new to e-learning, HR, IT and technical writers.

N.B. no detailed knowledge of psychology or instructional design principles is necessary to benefit from this course: all important concepts and terminology will be explained.

Learning Objectives

You will gain a blueprint for designing well-structured and compelling online learning experiences. You will understand how to choose suitable courses for conversion into e-learning, when and how to use different media and how to combine e-learning with more traditional instructional methods. You will work on a project throughout the course and receive a set of practical tools and checklists to take away.

Meet Your Trainer

Your trainer for this course will be BCS Trainer of the Year
Medalist Nikki Ashley. The average training feedback for
Nikki Ashley is 9.7 out of 10!

Course Content

Introduction and Theory

Introduction to principles for effective e‑Learning

• Define the learning need
• Identify your audience and influencing factors
• Structure your e-learning content and define your learning objectives
• Be aware of the capacity and limitations of your authoring tool
• Design screen interactivity for learning and engaging learners

Definition of e-learning

• Similarities and differences between classroom based training and e-learning
• What is it/could it be?
• What's it good for?
• What's it not good for?

Introduction to instructional design

• What is it?
• Why do we need it?
• Training skills that transfer into instructional design

Types of learning

• Types of learning (look at behaviourism, cognitivism, constructivism and others)
• Practical learning theories (Honey and Mumford, Bloom)
• Transferring learning theories into e-learning

Defining the specific learning requirements of your course

• Identify all the parameters of the project – audience, stakeholders, deadlines etc
• Define your e-learning content as learning objectives
• Structure the content using a course map
• Defining the blend – most relevant learning for learning objectives

Effective Content - Writing for Screen

• Scriptwriting - what it is and what it's for
• Hints and tips for writing onscreen learning
• Writing questions for interactivity and assessment

Introduction to templates

• What is a template
• How can it help the ID process

Practical e-Learning Examples

Project management and the development life cycle

• Understanding and planning for the potential pitfalls of a project
• Managing SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) and other stakeholders
• User testing
• Change control

Overview of authoring tools

• The main options
• Choosing the most appropriate for your organisation
• The development process using an authoring tool

Using a template based authoring tool

• The 4 elements of an e-learning screen
• Advantages and disadvantages of using templates
• Types of templates
• Options for interactivity
• What’s possible with graphics and Flash
• Demonstration of a template based authoring tool

Pulling it all together

Workshop session – creating some e-learning using an authoring tool or paper based storyboarding

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