Instructional Design course: Educational Content Production

Name: Instructional Design course: Educational Content Production
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Learn how to become an educational content producer

Created byIvan Chagas

Last updated 9/2022

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What you'll learn

The basics of how to produce educational content and how to write texts and lesson scripts that work.
How to write content that is enjoyable to be read and consumed with good use of formatting in the educational context.
You will learn the basics of instructional design: a first step for you to start producing texts.
You will produce a small text for me and I will give you feedback on it!

Course content

12 sections • 64 lectures • 2h 11m total length

Introduction1:58
Explore the premise of instructional design and content production, balancing educational objectives with readability and brand promotion while integrating marketing, sales, customer service, and programming insights.
Get to know the instructor Ivan Chagas3:18
The instructor, a Brazilian instructional designer, explains how to turn your knowledge into educational content production, creating text, lessons, and class scripts, and how to plan and deliver it.
I want to know you a little bit better!
Where to find more content0:09
Useful knowledge for content producers3:44
Explain the 5 pillars of knowledge of the current content creator.
Glossary for beginners1:10
A list of terms and references for content creators to be aware of.
Terms for reference3:59
Educational objectives: to whom you are writing2:43
Introduction to the concept of Educational Objectives.
How to create educational objectives in practice?0:49
Module quiz
More courses on Education and Instructional Design0:14

The three principles of every content1:59
Introduction to the three principles of every educational text.
The three concepts of educational content0:48
Educational content has to be instrumental1:24
What makes educational content really educational?
Educational content has context2:33
To better explain how to provide context to your content, we will have to enrich it.
Educational content helps the heutagogy of the student4:36
Better describe how to assist the student's heutagogy process.
The 2A2S of heutagogy2:11
Module quiz

What differentiates educational text formatting1:50
Let's think about how formatting text helps us to learn.
Improving the scannability of your text with headings3:47
How to make your texts more scannable using headers.
Tips on improving the scannability of your texts1:02
Writing paragraphs that are easier to read2:02
The general paragraph structure and readability tips.
Using highlight and lists3:44
How text formatting can improve content absorption.
Improving the robustness of texts with links4:09
How using links can improve the quality of your texts.
Example of hypertext0:35
The 3Cs of hypertext1:06
Module quiz

It won’t be a grammar lesson2:21
A little on what we will see in this module.
Writing: how to improve your writing skills4:34
Communication principles: conciseness and objectivity
Examples of how to improve your conciseness1:08
Revising: proofreading technique2:57
Eliminate ambiguities and grammar mistakes.
Tools to do your proofread process0:07
Rereading: confirming the sequences of the contents2:12
Process of improving confusing phrases.
Module quiz

Understand the basic structure of education content1:59
Explain the two basic concepts: instructional events and educational objectives.
Plan your content in advance2:47
Understanding educational goals.
Briggs-Gagné's Learning outcomes table0:01
Know your goal with each block2:14
What are instructional events and how to use them.
Gagné's 9 instructional events0:01
Review whether your lesson’s goal has been met1:36
To finish this part, always review your content.
Module quiz

Welcome to the second part0:47
Combine the theories in cyclical parts, consolidate the knowledge you've seen so far, and send occasional finalized text for feedback as the instructor expresses excitement for the second part.
How to structure your content2:36
Organizing content into short topics1:52
Organize content into short topics from simple to complex, enriched with visuals and media, using color concepts like color wheel, temperature contrast, and color blindness.
Writing a script is more than passing on knowledge1:16

Using the objectives of your class1:49
Identify lesson objectives and perform task analysis to define the umbrella goal guiding educational content creation, then apply instruction mapping and sequencing to align content with the objectives.
Doing the task analysis0:24
Mapping the steps of your content3:47
Map the structure by listing prerequisites and instructional events. Outline a stepwise sequence from the basics to online course design, clarifying what to provide and what students must bring.
Classification of tasks3:18
Classify the ten types of tasks using Briggs taxonomy, pair each educational objective with an activity, and plan delivery and media in a structured table guided by multimedia principles.
How to classify tasks0:43
How to apply each media in your planning3:15
Apply the 12 multimedia learning principles to planning courses, emphasizing signaling, redundancy, spatial and temporal contiguity, segmentation, modality, and personalization with combinations of graphics, narration, and human voice.
Media planning0:06
Some media ideas you can use1:45
Choose when to add media to content and promote ideas using models or images. Highlight concepts with simplified visuals, offline drawings, on screen keywords, and deconstructive animations.
Applying instructional events7:51
Plan lessons with instructional events using script or outline formats, guiding students through attention, recall of prior learning, contents, performance, feedback, assessment, retention and transfer, adapted to your context.
Instructional events: download the guide0:18
Starting your document0:37
Design your first document for instructional design and educational content production by downloading the lesson template, adapting content to structural events, and sharing your integrated concepts.
Download your template here0:12
Module quiz

Requirements

No requirements! We'll go through several of the basic contents and how to transform what you have in your head into educational content!

Description

In today's world, it is not enough that we only understand instructional design to produce educational content. That was in the past decade.

You are probably here because you are interested in this area, but also because you want to learn about how to create educational content that works - and nowadays we are required to know what this content is going to be used for.

Unlike a content marketing post, these you read on generic blogs, which goal is much more to generate leads, ours have as main objective to teach. Still, we take into account marketing techniques and website building. Therefore, we will learn a little of each one.

This course is focused on andragogy (how adults learn), but you can apply it to other age ranges, surely.

In this 2-hour course, you will understand:

What make educational texts truly educational.
The basics of instructional design for you just getting started.
You will leave with an understanding of what instructional design, heutagogy, educational goals and instructional events are all about.
In the end, there will be a task where you will produce your first educational text and I will provide feedback on it!

My name is Ivan Chagas, I have been a teacher here at Udemy for 3 years and 6,000 students have enrrolled in my courses in Portuguese, English and Spanish. I have been working with educational content for 10 years, organizing events, I was an educational manager at the biggest innovation school in Curitiba and today I live full-time as an instructional designer and content creator.

Welcome to Poly's Educational Content Production course!

Who this course is for:

Professionals who have a lot of knowledge in their head and want to learn how to put it in an educational format.
People who want to start an instructional design career and need to learn the basic terms.
Whoever works with content marketing or copywriting and wants to turn their texts into truly educational content.

Instructional Design course: Educational Content Production

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Course content

Course introduction9 lectures • 18min

What makes a good educational content6 lectures • 14min

Basic text formatting8 lectures • 18min

Main mistakes content writers make6 lectures • 13min

How to do your research6 lectures • 15min

Organizing your content6 lectures • 9min

First part assignment:1 lecture • 1min

How to refine the content of your text4 lectures • 7min

Delivering the de facto instruction12 lectures • 24min

Basic SEO techniques4 lectures • 10min

Requirements

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