Instructional design is the process of designing materials and processes to impart knowledge, develop skills, or enable changes in behavior.
Becoming an instructional designer is an excellent career choice because it provides a wide range of opportunities. As an instructional designer, you can work in several fields, including basic education, higher education, vocational training, safety training, corporate training, and compliance training.
This course will help you familiarize yourself with the different terms, concepts, and processes under the umbrella of instructional design. You will also learn of the various stakeholders and roles that work closely, and often intersect, with instructional designers. Lastly, this course also covers the different models of the instructional design process and evaluating instructional design.
The target learners of this course are working professionals who are interested in shifting careers to instructional design, as well as those instructional designers who are at the beginning of their careers. However, instructional designers with years of experience may also benefit from this course. In my experience, it is possible that you’ve been doing a particular instructional design process already without knowing what it’s called, or that you’ve been doing instructional design without knowing that you’re already doing it. This usually happens to employees who stay in the same company for so long and are shoved into different roles. Knowing what terms apply to what you are doing can help you with what to look for in job advertisements.
