In this course, you will learn the business elements of instructional design, including tracking and staying on budget and timeframe, project management, facilitating challenging conversations, communicating your instructional design vision, working collaboratively, managing innovation and culture change, developing relationships with SMEs, and more. Course activities will allow you to practice collaboratively and receive feedback. This course includes multiple resources you can incorporate into your work.

Course Description:

In this course, you will learn the business elements of instructional design.

• Learn and practice advanced instructional design techniques
• Learn how to track your ID projects and stay on budget
• Practice facilitating conversations, setting expectations, and developing relationships with clients
• Identify strategies for managing projects to keep them in scope

The blended learning workshop combines:

• Three live instructor-led training sessions in our virtual classroom
• Four weeks of activities and online discussions
• One two-day in-person workshop held at the DevLearn 2014 Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada

Course Objective: In this workshop, you will:

• Discuss today’s instructional design trends
• Create a pitch communicating your learning solution to team members, stakeholders, and SMEs
• Discuss learning technologies and platforms
• Document team roles and expectations
• Practice facilitating conversations, setting expectations, and developing relationships
• Learn techniques for managing change within an organization to support effective instructional design
• Identify strategies for managing projects to keep them in scope
• Identify steps and resource for developing skills and mentoring other instructional designers

Syllabus

The following topics are covered:

SESSION ONE AND TWO: October 8 & 15

Advanced design

• Drawing inspiration from other fields
• Incorporating multiple technologies and platforms
• Grabbing and keeping their attention
• Implementing today’s top ID trends

SESSION THREE: October 25

PART ONE: Collaboration and communicating the vision

• Iterative ideation
• Communicating the vision to team members
• Communicating the vision to stakeholders
• Communicating the vision to subject matter experts
• Working on virtual teams

PART TWO: Client facilitation

• Developing working relationships with clients and SMEs
• Defining roles and setting expectations
• Facilitating conversations (including key sentence starters)
• Thinking on your feet
• The art of assertiveness

PART THREE: Innovation and culture change

• Identifying road blocks
• Aligning with a champion
• Educating others
• Taking baby steps

SESSION FOUR: October 26

PART ONE: Basic project management

• Assessing your design: is it in scope?
• Managing scope creep
• Managing SMEs
• Plans B, C, and D

PART TWO: Mentoring junior instructional designers

• Reviewing others’ work
• Providing constructive feedback
• Sharing your expertise
• Developing rock-star IDs

SESSION FIVE: November 5

Summary

• Debriefing DevLearn
• Applying everything you’ve learned back on the job

Who Should Attend:

This course is for instructional designers looking to advance their skills and knowledge about the business elements of instructional design so they can become more valuable to their internal or external clients.

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Pricing:

$1195.00 USD: Rate for Associates and Non-members
$995.00 USD: Rate for Associates and Non-members with DevLearn Registration
$956.00 USD: for eLearning Guild paid members
$756.00 USD: for eLearning Guild paid members with DevLearn Registration

Learn more about other registration discounts for which you may qualify.

Dates & Times:

• Wednesday, October 8: Live Online Training from noon – 2:00 PM PT
• Wednesday, October 15: Live Online Training from noon – 2:00 PM PT
• Saturday, October 25 and Sunday, October 26: In-person training (DevLearn 2014 Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada) from 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM local time.
• Wednesday, November 5: Live virtual follow-up session from noon – 2:00 PM PT

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Instructor:

Tracy Bissette, MEd, is the CLO and co-founder of Weejee Learning. She an expert on effective instructional design techniques and leads a team that creates enterprise-wide eLearning solutions for many companies, from Fortune 500s to nonprofits.

Additional Information:

Duration: Four weeks, with activities between sessions, combining virtual live online training and a face-to-face workshop taking place at the DevLearn 2014 Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 25 and 26.

Class Size: Class size limited to 20.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites.

Requirements: A portion of this Guild Academy workshop includes live online training using Cisco WebEx Training Center—see system requirements here: http://www.webex.com/test-meeting.html