CRAFTING INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

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Crafting effective and appealing instructional strategies for training course is a signature capability for training designers. In this online certificate program, you'll learn how to combine the science of instructional strategies with your own creative talents to create innovative training solutions.

This online certificate program will begin on October 16, 2008. See full schedule now. Register below!

Certificate Program: Crafting Instructional Strategies

• Peter Honebein, Ph.D.
  President, Honebein Associates, Inc. | Customer Performance Group
  Author, Strategies for Effective Customer Education.

Pre-Workshop and/or Interim Assignments:
There will be a required two hours of pre-work or interim assignments.

Session 1 — Thursday, October 16, 2008
Unit 1: What is Instructional Strategy?

• The purpose of instructional strategy
• Recognizing macro and micro strategies
• The instructional strategy model
• Three elements of any good instruction
• Most useful instructional strategies
• Linking the science to the art

Unit 2: Analyzing Instructional Conditions and Outcomes

• The domains of learning
• The true power of learning objectives
• Classifying the nature of content
• Classifying the nature of outcomes

Unit 3: Leveraging the Brain and Senses

• The old brain and the new brain
• How people process information
• Do learning styles matter?
• Principles of encoding and decoding
• It’s all about the feedback

Session 2 — Thursday, October 23, 2008
Unit 4: Making Facts Memorable

• The value of facts
• Categorization and chunking strategies
• Mnemonic and rhyme strategies
• Visual strategies
• The importance of repetition

Unit 5: Ensuring Concepts are Understandable

• The value of concepts
• The three phases of concept learning
• Crafting concept definitions
• Example and non-example strategies
• Elaboration strategies

Unit 6: Procedures That Deliver Results

• The value of procedures
• Categorization and chunking strategies
• Demonstrate and do strategies
• Monkey-see, monkey do strategies
• Backward chaining strategies

Session 3 — Thursday, October 30, 2008
Unit 7: Enhancing Expertise with Principles

• The value of principles
• Process and causal principles
• Cause and effect strategies
• Analogy strategies

Unit 8: Activating Physical Skills

• The value of physical skills
• Imitation strategies
• Manipulation strategies
• Precision strategies
• Articulation strategies
• Naturalization strategies

Unit 9: Shaping Attitudes

• The value of attitudes
• The root of emotions and feelings
• Pain and gain strategies
• Jolt strategies
• Simulation strategies

Unit 10: The Whole Performance

• Chaining strategies into a learning experience
  

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the process of crafting instructional strategies
• Analyze instructional conditions and outcomes
• Explain how the human brain processes information
• Apply instructional strategies to teach a given type of content
• Enhance the creativity of an instructional strategy
• Defend your designs against nit-picking know-it-alls
  

Those on the front-line of designing, developing, writing, and delivering training through instructor-led, e-learning, and blended methods.

Participants in this course must have completed development or delivery of at least one instructor-led, e-learning, or blended training solution.

• Inventories and surveys
• Live, online presentations
• Examples, examples, and more examples
• Facilitated, online discussion
• Online knowledge-base development
• Individual design exercises with peer review and critique
  

Each session (October 16-30, 2008) will be 2.5 hours long and start at 2:00pm Eastern Time. There will be opportunities to ask questions during the daily sessions as well as through the Training Live & Online community discussion forum.

Again, note that all sessions times above are listed in Eastern Daylight Time (New York time). For times in other time zones, 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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