LIVE ONLINE COURSE
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
MODULE 1
Introduction to Instructional Design
Identify learning principles, behaviorism, the history of instructional design, and best practices to leverage for your course.
Assignment #1: Complete the pre-course assessment.
Liana teaches best practices in instructional design and learner development strategies.
MODULE 2
Analyzing Needs
Learn how to verify the effectiveness of your course with stakeholders by creating instructionally sound, quantifiable learning objectives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Assignment #7: Turn in the link to your final course prior to the presentation.
You'll continue with student stakeholder presentations and feedback.
Join Liana for a bonus 75-minute career workshop that prepares you to successfully go after your next ID role.
You did it — you created an engaging, instructionally sound course! Present your MVP course to the class.
Assignment #8: Complete the final assessment.