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Instructional Design for Senior-professionals and Trainers ( IDST) Certificate Course

(Registrations are currently open for the next Course Group starting April 29, 2012.)

Name of the Course: Instructional Design Senior-professionals and Trainers (IDST) Certificate Course

Who should join?

• Trainers/Senior Trainers/Training Managers who would like to learn instructional design to map it to their current jobs for making their trainings more effective.
• Sales/Marketing Managers working in the area of training/L&D who wish to use the knowledge of instructional design to communicate more effectively and profitably with their clients.
• Instructional Design Analysts/Consultants/Senior Consultants/Other Senior Professionals who have worked in content development and wish to map their practical knowledge to the concepts of instructional design.
• Lecturers, Readers, and Professors who would like to use instructional design to make their classes more interesting and effective.
  

  The ideal candidate for this course has:

  • good spoken and written English,
  • past work-experience in training and/or management functions,
  • and a keen desire to push the limit of excellence in training and content creation by integrating the skill of instructional design with prior knowledge and experience.

  Note: This course will need your unwavering commitment and about 12-14 hours of your time on a weekly basis.

Expected Entry Skills:

Language Skills: Good command over spoken and written English.
Computer Skills: Basic computer and Internet skills.
Education: Graduation in any discipline
Work Experience: Individuals with significant experience in training or/and management will be given preference.

Primary Course Goal:

Upon completing this course, the learner should be able to use instructional design to establish knowledge-leadership in training, training content creation, and the management of training/content development-related processes.

In other words, the learner shall develop expertise in applying the knowledge of instructional design theories and models to execute and manage training design, training implementation, and client communication more effectively.

I am confident that quite like the participants of my earlier programs, IDST Participants too will be the forerunners in establishing instructionally-effective processes for designing and delivering effective training programs in their respective organizations.

The IDST Content Outline:

1. Instructional Design – An Introduction
2. The Approaches to Instructional Design
3. Application of Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism – overlap and interdependency.
4. Training design and development & the ADDIE model.
5. The three analyses – importance and methods.
6. Application of the Cognitive Load Theory in content creation/training delivery.
7. Application of Robert Mager’s framework for defining objectives
8. Different learning styles & content creation/training delivery
9. Learning and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
10. Motivating the learner through the ARCS model
11. The three learning domains and their inter-dependency
12. Dave’s taxonomy and psychomotor domain content creation
13. Krathwohl’s taxonomy and affective domain content creation
14. Bloom’s taxonomy and cognitive domain content creation
15. Gagne’s nine events of instruction
16. The practical application of Gagne’s design framework
17. Dale’s cone of experience
18. Use of Dale’s classification in the learning mediums of today
19. Knowles’ theory of andragogy
20. Impact of culture on the application of adult learning principles
21. The Kirkpatrick model for summative evaluation and its application
22. Understanding eLearning/blended and eLearning Development Processes.
23. Content classification for ILTs, eLearning, and Blended Learning – The Central Premise.
24. The design and development process for ILTs
25. Chunking content for the different components of ILTs
26. Instructional structuring the sessions
27. Determining and designing effective activities
28. Structuring content to meet design requirements
29. Addressing the Intended audience
30. Icebreakers – Concept and Design
31. Training games – Concept and Design
32. Instructional Storytelling
33. Role Play activities – Concept and Design
34. Assessment Rubrics – Concept and Application
    

Some of the Instructional Design Principles covered in the course are:

1. The Three Approaches to Instructional Design
2. Knowles’ Theory of Andragogy
3. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
4. Keller’s ARCS Model of Motivation
5. The Three Learning Domains
6. Dave’s Taxonomy
7. Bloom’s Taxonomy
8. Krathwohl’s Taxonomy
9. Learning Styles
10. Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction
11. The ADDIE Model
12. Kirkpatrick Model for Summative Evaluation
13. The Cognitive Load Theory
    

The IDST Course Methodology:

Instructional Design tells us how to create effective courses and learning programs, so to begin with, this course is designed and will be delivered strictly according to the same ID principles that it promises to help you master :)

Additionally,

The IDST Certificate Course uses:

• Real-life cases to illustrate the ID principles.
• Contextual examples
• Weekly Assignments that enable you to practice what you’ve learned.
• Weekly Online Discussions
• Continuous practice, Evaluation, and Feedback
• Quizzes
• Online Test

Course Duration:

2 Months – 16 Sessions of 1.5 hours each, classes on Sundays.
(Please Note: The course is conducted as a classroom training program in Noida in Delhi-NCR.)

Course Conducted By:

Shafali R. Anand (Chief Instructional Architect, Wavelength;
Editor & Publisher - Creative Agni - An eZine for Instructional Design & eLearning. )
Shafali R. Anand designed Wavelength’s Instructional Design Courses & Training Programs and conducted/facilitated them for six years. You can read what Shafali Anand's past course participants have to say about her and the courses that she designed and conducted.

Course Fee:

Rs. 24,000/-

Course Inquiry:

Please call 9871432102 between 10 AM and 6 PM for discussing your learning requirements.

The IDST Certificate:

Upon your successful completion of the course, you will receive the Instructional Design for Senior-professionals and Trainers Certificate from Creative Agni.

How to Join the IDST Certificate Course?

If you have prior training experience or if you are an experienced content professional, and if you are interested in taking the IDST Certificate course to empower yourself with the knowledge of instructional design, call 9871432102 (10 AM to 6 PM), or send an email to

 

Instructional Design for Senior-professionals and Trainers ( IDST) Certificate Course

(Registrations are currently open for the next Course Group starting April 29, 2012.)