LIVE ONLINE COURSE
ON DESIGNING IMPACTFUL
LEARNING EXPERIENCES
24 OCTOBER - 21 DECEMBER 2023
Duration:
6.5 WEEKS
TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS
4 PM PST / 7 PM EST
Wouldn't it be great to stop worrying about whether or not your learning programs will succeed and deliver 100% instructionally sound content, every time?
Start making engaging, valuable courses and e-learning programs that your audience will love. Learn the secrets of effective instructional design as you develop your own curriculum in this live 6.5-week course with Liana Griffin, Learning Evangelist for Microsoft.
WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR
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YOU HAVE A SKILL YOU'RE BURNING TO SHARE
How will you set yourself apart from other subject matter experts? By engaging e-learners with gamification and precise audience targeting. You'll start by building a project plan and finish with a ready course storyboard, crafted with the help of ID and design tools ranging from beginner to cutting-edge.
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YOU'RE BUILDING THE NEXT BIG THING IN EDTECH
The global e-learning market is set to reach $325 billion by 2025, but to succeed in this industry, being business savvy alone won’t cut it. Let Liana Griffin guide you through Fortune 500-tested strategies for market fit, content effectiveness assessments, and seamless collaboration with subject matter experts.
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YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUR MARK IN THE L&D SPHERE
Leaving your mark will help you enter a field with an average salary of $85K. It starts with creating content that exceeds expectations and hooks investors. How? Learn how to identify employee skills gaps, work effectively with subject matter experts, and create your own course to pitch to corporate clients.
Build your own course or training ready to take to stakeholders.
Start building your course from scratch in class, and leave with data and presentations that will sway them.
Identify learning principles, behaviorisms, the history of ID, and best practices that’ll turn great ideas into profitable solutions.
You’ll get 6.5 weeks of access to an expert & her experiences.
Liana's learning and development programs have helped hundreds of thousands of people grow in their skills while driving value to companies like Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon.
You’ll learn more than pro tips — network with your peers, get a certification, and enjoy 1-on-1 coaching on your course and pitch.
PLANNING
CONTENT
ROI
Quantify the effectiveness of your course with concrete metrics. Step beyond post-factum student reviews and discover metrics to determine your business ROI before, during, and after your course.
Griffin LinkedIn Profile
- Learning Evangelist [Business Program Manager], Microsoft
- Led instructional design for Amazon Kindle, creating high-quality training content for all e-learning programs, virtual classrooms, tool kits, and study guides
- Developed 100+ hours of instructional material for Facebook, expertly infusing gamification techniques into onboarding materials and workshops
- Integrates gamification and storytelling in instructional content for the Boys and Girls Club and for teaching American Sign Language
- Over 20 years of showcasing a proven record in effective ID, project management, and storytelling for worldwide e-learners.
COURSE INTRODUCTION
You’re one class closer to designing quality content! We’ll take 30 minutes to catch you up to speed with your course goals, administrative details, and meeting your instructor.
- Meet your instructor & associate instructor
- Introduction to course structure
- Housekeeping rules
- Examples of the course projects
MODULE 1
Introduction to Instructional Design
Identify learning principles, behaviorism, the history of instructional design, and best practices to leverage for your course.
- What is instructional design?
- History of ID
- Types of instructional design
Assignment #1: Complete the pre-course assessment.
Liana teaches best practices in instructional design and learner development strategies.
- Learning strategies
- Gange’s 9 principles
- Modalities
- Development strategies: ADDIE, SAM, and RADDEST
MODULE 2
Analyzing Needs
Learn how to verify the effectiveness of your course with stakeholders by creating instructionally sound, quantifiable learning objectives.
- Cognitive gap analysis
- Learning objectives
- Bloom's taxonomy
Assignment #2: Describe your course idea and why you want to build it. Based on the business gap or goal, write out your course learning objectives (3 max) and identify the level of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
This class teaches you how to develop quantifiable learning objectives and a robust assessment for your learners.
- Writing assessments
- Assessment exercise activity
Assignment #3: Based on your course learning objectives, write up an assessment activity to quantify that learning goal.
Get proven strategies and ID life hacks for developing courses quickly and keeping stakeholders happy.
- Agile development
- Agile and ADDIE
- Training development process
- Project analysis
- Resources and timelines
MODULE 3
Design and Develop
Discover effective strategies to construct a compelling content outline for your course! In this lesson, you’ll skillfully employ the art of powerful storytelling and engaging gamification techniques.
- ROPES framework
- How to create a course content outline (template walk-through)
- Storytelling techniques
- Gamification techniques
Assignment #4: Complete your course content outline using ROPES and Gagne’s 9 steps.
Liana will demonstrate the best visual design practices for creating a storyboard or demo that you can share with stakeholders.
- Training development tools
- Storyboards
- Creating engaging content
- Typography
- Overview of 8 design and presentation tools for incredible ID content (Storyline, Captivate, Camtasia, Canva, Rise 360, Vyond, Well Said Labs, PPT)
Let’s dive deeper into a couple of the tools from the last class and explore developed course examples with Rise 360 and Storyline. We’ll also jump into the AI side, exploring AI tools available in Articulate Storyline, ChatGPT, and DALL·E.
- Demo: Storyline and Rise 360 sample courses
- AI Tools
- AI in Articulate Storyline
- ChatGPT for learning objectives
- DALL·E
Assignment #5: Leverage your content outline to create a draft training course.
MODULE 4
Evaluation, Implementation, and Career
Liana teaches you how to objectively verify the effectiveness of the training and communicate your findings to stakeholders. You'll explore some end-to-end case studies connecting course development to measurable outcomes and ROI.
- Communication Plan
- Kirkpatrick Levels of Evaluation
- ROI & Business Data
- Case Studies
- Facilitation Tips
- Presentation best practices
Assignment #6: Write up how you will measure the success of your training using Kirkpatrick's levels of evaluation.
Today, you'll pitch your course concept for the class, as you would for stakeholders, or offer other students feedback on their course presentations.
- Student presentations: Course concept
Assignment #7: Turn in the link to your final course prior to the presentation.
You'll continue with student stakeholder presentations and feedback.
- Student presentations: Course concept
Join Liana for a bonus 75-minute career workshop that prepares you to successfully go after your next ID role.
- LinkedIn profile
- Interviewing
- Culture and fit
You did it — you created an engaging, instructionally sound course! Present your MVP course to the class.
Assignment #8: Complete the final assessment.