Course Design Made Easy

Course Design 101

You have been tasked with your first instructional design job. But do you fully understand what is expected of you? An instructional designer makes a science out of training. As the designer, you talk with master performers, and you observe their performance. You interview other performers, read standard policies and procedures, and discuss expectations with management. Then, when your research is complete, you pull all that information together into classroom content.

Your next task is to create a document describing the skill you observed executed by the master performers. That document introduces what must be taught, presents effective ways to teach it, and provides assessment tools that evaluate the trainee and the training ...