
Delve into practical instructional design for eLearning, emphasizing practical application over theories and models, and reveal its beauty in everything we do.
Master the eight steps to design an e-learning course, from finalizing the brief and outlining content to chunking, defining objectives, deciding the treatment, storyboarding, and creating assessments that meet objectives.
Read a client brief, then proceed to the quiz following this brief to reinforce instructional design for eLearning.
Gather all information, including the brief, answers to questions, and additional content, to fill the content outline; download resources to see how they are used.
Assess content relevance by considering the target audience and their prior knowledge. Chunk information into bite-sized pieces, separating need-to-know essentials from optional details linked as hyperlinks.
Rewrite course objectives by breaking the big picture into milestone goals, then list ingredients, understand baking tips, and measure timing to guide learners through a logical sequence.
Explore Bloom's taxonomy revised, detailing six cognitive levels—remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, creating—and how to apply level-specific action verbs across three course interactivity levels.
Plan how to display course content through the treatment, basing decisions on content evaluation and the course level chosen as typical for that level.
Assign treatment by level. Level one uses static text and images with quizzes; level three adds audio, video, transitions, animations, simulations, and branch scenario based questions.
Identify common doubts about assessment questions and review types such as multiple choice questions, true or false questions, fill in the blank questions, and matching questions.
Explore intrinsic and extrinsic feedback, with indirect cues and direct statements, and show how pop-up boxes present correct or incorrect feedback while outlining the parts of your feedback statement.
Identify the parts of a feedback statement: acknowledge the response, present the correct option, restate it, and explain why, while starting objectives with action verbs.
This course focuses on the real tasks that instructional designers perform on a daily basis. You will understand how to begin the Instruction Design process from the moment you are handed a client brief. This online tutorial will show you all the steps to follow, and questions to ask right from the brief stage to the point where you will complete your final storyboard.
Welcome to Instructional Design!
If you:
· Want to prepare yourself for the real tasks that instructional designers perform on a daily basis
· Have only theoretical knowledge but don't know where this theory fits in
· Feel you have gaps in your understanding about the instructional design process
Then this course is for you!
The course is divided into the following ten sections:
Introduction
Step 1: Finalise the Brief
Step 2: Fill in the Content Outline
Step 3: Analyse the Content
Step 4: Chunk the Content
Step 5: Create Relevant Objectives
Step 6: Decide the Treatment
Step 7: Storyboard the Course
Step 8: Create Assessments
After completing this course, you should be able to:
Understand the brief and ask valid questions
Create a detailed content outline
Analyse the given content, identify gaps, and ask important questions
Chunk the content into appropriate sections
Create relevant objectives designed for your course
Decide the best treatment for every screen of your course
Storyboard your course using the template that works best for you
Create effective assessments that map to your objectives