Device Management: Instructional Design Project

One of the biggest misconceptions I had going into the Adult Education and Training program at Colorado State University was that instructional design was specific to designing and implementing computer-based training courses. When I finally came upon the instructional design course, I was in for a rather big shock! 

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There are so many things that go into good instructional design, from needs and audience analysis to goals and objectives to assessment and evaluation plans. One of the courses I currently teach at my company, Device Management, is a topic that has relevance to ninety percent of our customer base, and while the information is still good, it is somewhat outdated. It's also currently taught in a synchronous distance learning format.

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For my instructional design project, I took the existing course as an inspiration, but started as if it were truly new information. I completed a full needs analysis to show leadership the need for a new format, and performed an audience analysis to show support for the same. Goals and objectives were developed, along with assessment plans, and I used all of this information to create an outline for a four-module course that could be delivered either through a facilitator or through a computer-based training course.

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I'm happy to say that the job aids I created as part of this process have been accepted as official documents by my company, and are now in use and provided to customers for download. Unfortunately, as a result, I'm not able to share them here.

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I've included this project here both to demonstrate the work that I was able to create, but also as a reminder that instructional design is far more than creating computer-based training courses.