Instructional Design for e-Learning - NEW!

For anyone who must design or evaluate e-learning, work with e-learning vendors, manage instructional designers, or make decisions about asynchronous e-learning.

• Determine project constraints.
• Plan an e-learning project.
• Determine course content.
• Write performance-based objectives.
• Determine the course structure.
• Determine practice.
• Select presentation, application, and feedback methods.
• Select media to support methods.
• Design methods and media.
• Develop the course.
• Validate the course.
• Evaluate the course.

Session 1

• How to plan a successful e-learning project.
• How to determine specific design constraints affecting e-learning.
• How to estimate design time.
• A step-by-step instructional design process.
• How to target e-learning to your audience.

• How to determine course content.
• How to build job relevance into e-learning.
• How to determine whether e-learning is the right training strategy for each task.

• How to write course objectives that guarantee learner success.
• 5 sequencing methods that help determine the course structure.
• Criteria for establishing an effective implementation strategy.
• A Course Plan worksheet to help you document the high-level plans for the course.
• Criteria for additional course components that may be required for your course.
• How to design performance-based tests for e-learning.

Session 2

• 12 comprehensive method description sheets for creating interactive presentation and application.
• Guidelines for creating 7 different types of quiz questions.
• How to select the most effective instructional methods for e-learning.
• How to provide tangible feedback to learners.
• How to select the best media options for each presentation and application method.
• How to select which tools/features to use with each media option.
• 3 different storyboard options to capture your design decisions.
• A detailed worksheet to help you capture all critical design details.

Session 3

• Over 50 tips for applying adult learning principles to e-learning.

• Guidelines for working effectively with subject-matter experts.
• How to prevent rework by getting SME approval on design plans before development takes place.
• Essential guidelines for developing e-learning requirements.
• Tips for creating a highly functional user interface.
• Valuable tips for conducting a design prototype session.

• 3 proven techniques to test your e-learning courses.
• 30 criteria to validate your e-learning design.
• A simple form for gathering insightful feedback about the course design.
• How to evaluate the 4 outcomes of e-learning.
• 50 possible items to include in an evaluation.

• All the worksheets, checklists, and forms in Microsoft® Word template format. Simply download the templates from your personal My Langevin website.
• 90-day access to all recorded online sessions. 
• Free 1-year feedback service. Receive detailed feedback on your materials to help improve your courses. 

This workshop combines 3 synchronous sessions with additional self-paced activities. You will spend time live, online learning how to apply a sound instructional design process to all your e-learning projects. Also, 3 to 4 hours will be required for pre-course work and intersession assignments.

Maximum Class Size: 15 participants (We limit class size to ensure maximum value and participation for our clients.)

• Log in to our Adobe Connect platform using a standard web browser and access the audio for the workshop using a telephone and headset (or ear buds with a microphone). A toll-free teleconference number will be provided.
• Expect an engaging, highly interactive, hands-on workshop with plenty of practice opportunities using breakout rooms, chat, polls, whiteboard annotation tools, etc.
• Review recordings of each session for up to three months after the workshop ends.