CERTIFICATE PROGRAM:
"Managing and Communicating
  the Instructional Design Process:
  Practical Ways to Guarantee Your
  Learning Interventions with Confidence"

Live & Online

Most instructional designers can develop learning interventions, but how well do they manage the process? More than ever, managers and instructional designers are expected to deliver high-fidelity interventions on time and under budget. Yet, projects often fall short of these constraints due to ineffective communications and trial-and-error project management.

This certificate program provides practical tactics, templates, tools, and job aids to successfully manage your instructional design projects and clearly communicate your design strategies to sponsors and stakeholders.

Certificate Program:

Managing and Communicating the Instructional Design Process: Practical Ways to Guarantee Your Learning Interventions with Confidence

Benefits include the following:

• Provide the confidence to guarantee the quality of your deliverables
• Improve your ability to communicate with clients, sponsors, and stakeholders
   

• Gary A. DePaul, Ph.D., CPT
  Co-author "Formative Evaluation: Getting it Right the First Time" in The Trainer’s Portable Mentor
   

Before attending, complete the online survey. The survey questions will be used to modify the course and your progress toward the certificate.

Upon completing the survey, you will receive a variety of instructional design templates and tools including the following:

• Project charter template
• Design workplan template
• Time estimator tool for the development phase
• High-level design template
• Detailed design template
• Development workplan template

Session 1 – Monday, December 01, 2008
Module 1: Certificate program overview

• Introductions and program roadmap
• Learning objectives and rationale for the program
• Survey results

Module 2: Managing projects

• Importance of planning
• The instructional designer as an accidental project manager

Module 3: Creating a project charter

• Defining the scope
• Determining roles and responsibilities
• Managing assumptions and risks
• Determining conditions for cancellation or suspension
• Estimating high-level costs and duration

Module 4: Creating design and development workplans

• Completing workplans
• Using the design workplan template
• Using the development workplan template
• Using the combined design/development workplan template
• Managing workplans
• Using the issues template
• Determining communications with the communication template

Program assignment: Complete the online end-of-day evaluation and elearning review.

Session 2 – Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Module 4 Continued

Module 5: Estimating the development tool

• Using the instructor-led estimator tool
• Using the WBT estimator tool

Module 6: Creating high-level and detailed design documents

• Collecting data for a design document
• Running a design meeting
• Using the high-level design template
• Using the detailed design template

Program assignment: Complete the online end-of-day evaluation and elearning review.

Session 3 – Friday, December 05, 2008
Module 6 Continued

Module 7: Creating a formative evaluation plan

• Defining evaluation types
• Deciding when to use formative evaluation (conceptual overview)
• Explaining who evaluates
• Applying the nine formative evaluation techniques

Module 8: Pulling it all together

• Review course map and objectives
• Action steps: Putting instructional design management and communications into practice 

Program assignment: Complete the online end-of-day evaluation and elearning review.
 

It is all about managing and guaranteeing your learning interventions. By the end of this program, you will be able to:

• Communicate the scope of work using an instructional design project charter template
• Manage projects using instructional design workplan templates
• Use an Excel-based intervention estimator tool for estimating development time
• Deliver effective designs using high-level and detailed design templates
• Create an effective formative evaluation plan to strengthen an intervention
   

This certificate program can benefit human performance professionals involved in managing instructional design projects and communicating with sponsors, clients, stakeholders, and subject-matter experts. These professionals include:

• Lead instructional designers
• Instructional designers
• Instructional design managers
• Performance consultants
• Professionals transitioning to a training environment
   

Participants must have a basic understanding of the instructional systems design process.
 

Dr. DePaul uses the live, online media to deliver most of the content and interactions. In addition to this, you will use the following:

• Online surveys
• Online review sessions
• Tools and templates for practice
   

This course is comprised of three (3) live online sessions. Below are the dates of live sessions for the next offering of this program. All sessions start at 11:00 am Eastern Standard Time (New York time). See below for the time of the sessions listed in various time zones.

For times in other cities, visit this link. Live sessions will be recorded for those who wish to go back and review or who must miss a live session.
 

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