Our Instructional Model
Steps of Instructional Design (ID) Model for Developing Elearning Courses:
Step 1: Identify challenges of the organization, learning culture, buy in of top management and risks
Step 2: Audience and Stake Holders Needs
Also check the preferred medium of instruction from the following:
- Linguistic, Musical, Logical, Kinetics, Spatial, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal
- Find out trends in Learning Style
Step 3: Motivation to be designed from Internal needs, External needs, Context of learning and linking to Maslows principle. The best motivator is challenge.
- Anxiety is also to be considered both personal and external
- Attention keeping strategy to be thought through
- Attitude change, if needed to be designed
Step 4: Task Analysis is done
Step 5: Rights and Wrongs in the tasks to be reflected on and learning brought into cognition through
- Thinking options
- Searching for info
- Selecting option
- Models, if needed to be developed
Step 6: Concepts to be developed or taught. Some best practices are
- Higher Rules to be made clear
- Higher aptitude, lower structure
- Easy to Difficult
- Chunks (7 +- 2)
- Image and text together help learning better
- Facts to be taught through Mnemonic’s
- Practice through examples & cases
- One thought at a time
- Humor related to topic only
- Time Planner in course
Step 7: Evaluate with positive reinforcement
Step 8: Concrete Experience to be given
Some elements of a fruitful experience are:
- Challenges
- Curiosity
- Competition
- Rewards
- Realistic Environment
Step 9: REWARD and FEEDBACK to be given for business and individual performance
Step 10: Active Experimentation with Social Learning on projects
Step 11: Adoption
Some best practices are:
- Early adopters start using
- First few users take as role models
- Spread message
- Experience sharing among users
- Coaching users
- Link usage to performance rating
- Top management support