9471 Instructional Systems Design
Description:
Designing learning experiences for professionals is very different from lesson planning for K-12 students. Learn to analyze professional development needs, select appropriate instructional strategies, translate those strategies into products, and evaluate the quality of your work. The ISD approach produces quality training programs, whether you work for a multi-national corporation or a local school district.
Objectives: Students will...
- Conduct a performance analysis to determine the causes of performance problems
- Select and utilize appropriate needs assessment tools to conduct a needs analysis to gather information about the needs of your learners
- Design, develop, and implement a survey
- From the list of educational/training needs identified, systematically select those most appropriate for development
- Complete procedural and task analysis procedures for fulfilling necessary task analysis functions, including inventory, selection, description, analysis, and sequencing.
- Perform procedural, learning, and subject matter analysis in order to identify the necessary instructional transactions (components) and sequence
- Conduct an environmental (contextual) analysis of an instructional situation by describing environmental features that may impact on the instruction or training that you are developing
- Develop an instructional sequence using First Principles for teaching one or more of the needs identified in the needs assessment
Assignments:
- Write a needs analysis plan for an authentic setting
- Conduct a task analysis on selected task
- Write objectives for training
- Write analogies related to the training
- Prepare a presentation of the training
- Write a reflection of the semester's work
- Example
In this class assignments were tiered toward leading students through a complete instructional design cycle from a needs assessment to the final report. Students were allowed to choose the topic of their instructional design project.