CE-TCOM-3004 - Instructional Design Principles
Course Description
Teaching adult students presents different challenges and opportunities from teaching K-12 students. The ability to design material in a way that is effective and engaging is a much needed skill. This course is designed to provide an introduction to various topics related to designing outcomes for courses and instructional documentation. From outcome-based instructional preparation to determining appropriate success criteria, you’ll walk away from this course with the skills you need to design a learning environment that will help your students get the most out of your time spent together.
Is This Course For You?
Whether you’re looking to start a career in instructional design or you want to gain some instructional design skills to create your own course or training, this course will help you achieve your goals. This is one of the elective course options in the Technical Communication Mastery Certificate, but it can also be taken as a standalone course if you’re looking to learn about designing materials for adult learning. Skills related to technical communication and instructional design are in high demand in many industries including tech, health care, IT, education, business, and more, so adding these skills to your resumé can help give your career a boost regardless of your current role.
What You’ll Learn
Throughout this course, you’ll gain knowledge of the principles of instructional design with a focus on adult learning. You’ll focus on adult learning principles and how to prepare material for courses and trainings to help students attain the desired outcomes using instructional design work processes that are common in the industry. Other topics you’ll cover include needs assessment, learner profiles, determining appropriate criteria to assess success, and more.
How You’ll Learn
This six week course has a hands-on focus so that you can walk away with not just information on instructional design, but practice with practical applications of that information in real-world scenarios. This includes creating and performing needs assessments, effectively using learner profiles, and actually implementing the workflows and processes that are used in the instructional design industry.
Skills You Walk Away With
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain adult learning principles.
- Explain using instructional preparation to attain desired outcomes.
- Explain how to conduct a needs assessment.
- Understand how to use learner profiles.
- Deploy instructional design work processes common in industry.
- Determine appropriate success criteria.
Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Mastery Certificate: Technical Communication : Elective Courses