Instructional Design (ID) is the practice of making trainings more effective, efficient, and appealing. The basic objective of Instructional Designing is to make your learner understand things. But, most Instructional Designer does not concentrate on this simple fact, they think of it just as giving training. Making their training boring, a boring training is not good for your business, if you have Instructional Design Company or working as ID. You can lose your client or reputation on bad training and on job front you can be fired. ID consists of some key fundamental strategies and teaching methodologies that trigger effective and efficient learning. There are five main ID fundamentals:
- Understand learner’s needs: Before you start designing any training material, you must find the needs of the learner, what exactly he wants, what he is not able to understand, concentrate on this. Training needs analysis and audience analysis are the key research areas that must be done before any ID project. The main outcome of these analyses is a list of topics that must be addressed in the training.
- Capture learner’s attention: Simply creating a training based on audience’s needs is not enough. The audience must be interested too about the training. To capture their attention, you must begin training with a “What’s in it for me?” scenario. This can be done through a tricky statement, question, scenario, quiz etc. You can also use humor and stories to capture learner’s interest. Make sure for not even a second your trainer loses interest in his training. Read the rest of this entry »