Fundamentals of Instructional Design (ID)

Instructional-design is the act of preparing material for learning, taking account learners' needs and clearly-defined goals, so the learners are most likely to achieve these goals, as defined by our professor in this course, Dr. Saul Carliner. I learned the fundamentals of how to perform instructional design by sytematically conducting a Needs Assessment, creating a Detailed Design, and developing a Learning Program, as follows:

Download the Needs Assessment

Download the Design Plans

Download the Storyboard

REFLECTION: After having taken all the courses for the Masters program in Educational Technology I realize I am now just beginning to understand Instructional Design and HPT. Perhaps it's because I needed a little time to digest and process all the learning and process. Perhaps it's because in running through a program, as a student, the imperative was to just to perform under direction.

Skills acquired: Writing tasks and objectives, creating personas, writing evaluations (Level 1: Satisfaction, Level 2: Summative, Level 3: Transfer), creating Design Plans, storyboarding the Learning Program
Software used: Microsoft Word and PowerPoint

In compiling the documents for this ePortfolio, I realize how much I've learned, and not only about how to put together learning materials. I've learned about so many other aspects of ID and HPT: the business environment of the learning industry, how internal or external training teams function, that instructional methods aren't confined to just ADDIE (SAM and Agile, for example), what the various educational technology used in learning or training.