IDCWC Online - FAQs:

Following are some of the questions that you may have about the IDCWC Online course. If your question is not answered here – contact us at idcwconline[at]vibrantwavelength[dot]com. The Wavelength team will respond to your query within 24 hours.

(A Closer Look at IDCWC Online Course)

Q1
You also have another course, the IDSP Online. What are the differences between the IDCWC Online and the IDSP Online?

Ans:
The IDCWC course aims at making you adept at using instructional design principles for the design and development of effective courses and trainings. The ideal audience for this course comprises those individuals who have good writing skills and who have less than 4 years of experience in content development/training. Thus, if your job comprises designing and developing courses/trainings OR if you are looking for a career change into a job that would comprise design and development of course/trainings, then the IDCWC course is for you.

On the other hand, the IDSP course suits experienced industry professionals who have moved into the leadership/management/client interaction roles. The IDSP course aims at making such professionals from the eLearning, training, academic backgrounds competent in instructional design application to their current roles.

Q2
Will all the reading material be online?

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Yes. The readings will be in form of html pages and interactive activities and assignments. The html pages will provide learning while the interactives will provide guidance and reinforcement.

Q3
Will I have to login to the discussion forum at a specified time?

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Wavelength's online discussion forum operates in asynchronous mode, which means that you can login according to your convenience. You will be required to make your posts by a particular day, but you can decide when you want to make it. For example, on Tuesday your facilitator may ask you to make your post by Thursday, which means that you can make it any time between Tuesday and Thursday.

Q4
At any point during the course, will I be required to visit Wavelength, Noida?

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No. The main idea behind online courses is to provide you the convenience of studying from home. However, you need a reliable Internet connection for taking this course.

Q5
When will I receive my certificate?

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You will receive your certificate one month after the successful completion of the course.

Q6
What will determine whether I have successfully completed the course?

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§ The quizzes, assignments, discussions, final project submission, and online test are graded. You will need to achieve pass grade in these.
§ You will also have to complete all graded activities within the stipulated time.

Q7
Will I be receiving the same certificate as the one received by those who go through the contact program?

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We have created the IDCWC online course keeping in mind the characteristics of the online medium. This course is equally robust and hence deserves the same treatment as the contact course. The certificate that you shall obtain upon completion of this course is the same as the one for the contact course.

Q8
You've asked us to complete the form and send you copies of some documents. What are they for?

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An instructional designer is an individual who is involved in content creation process. This means that a certain level of intellectual maturity is desired in the individual, which we feel comes only after graduation. Even those who are in the final year can apply for the course. Most eLearning organizations also have similar requirements. As Wavelength's courses are geared towards meeting the requirements of eLearning industry, we review the certificates to map the participant's profile to the requirements of the course.

Q9
What are my prospects upon completing this course?

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If you are a graduate with < 6 months of experience:
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Wavelength's IDCWC course has set standards for ID education in India. For this reason, this course and the certification is recognized by most eLearning organizations. We often get requirements for fresher level positions from various multinational organizations located all over India. As the contact program has been taken mainly by professionals of 2-14 years of experience, the requirement though burgeoning, remains unfulfilled. There is a huge requirement of fresh IDCWC certificate-holders at any given point in time.
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If you are an experienced professional:
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This course has been drawing professionals with 2-14 years of content development/training experience who wish to hone their ID skills to design and develop more effective content. Almost all IDCWC students have found that this course has helped them carve a bigger and better niche in their respective organizations. Some have won accolades within their organizations for ID. The IDCWC course can help you understand and implement instructional design correctly. This will help in your career growth as well as help you realize your hidden potential in content development.

Click to view the companies where Wavelength's course participants work.

Q10
I write good English but I don't intend to take up a job in Instructional Design. Will this course help me?

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This course helps you create instructionally effective content. It exposes you to the magic of instructional design, which can make your course outshine those that are created on an ad-hoc basis. This ability is scarce in the freelance market, which is growing along with the industry. If you write well, you can learn to write instructionally effective content. This will give you a good standing in the Indian Content Development market as a freelance instructional designer.

A Closer Look at IDCWC Online Course:

The IDCWC Online is different from any other online course. It is a course that understands its audience and motivates you to learn. It implements all facets of instructional design, through creative and highly interactive activities and scenarios. It appreciates the need to learn instructional design at the analysis and synthesis levels, as instructional designers are expected to synthesize their knowledge of instructional design with that of the audience and content to create learning material.

The IDCWC Online course ensures that each competency covered in the course has corresponding learning interactions that guide learning through cases and scenarios, elicit learning through interesting contextual exercises, and provide directional and constructive feedback. (click to view IDCWC Online's sample interactions)

A course can be expected to enable creation or synthesis only if it imparts learning at analysis and synthesis levels. The IDCWC online course does exactly this. Following are the features through which the course ensures that you become a confident instructional designer.

This course is designed to interact with you at an intellectual level that an instructional designer needs to be at. It lays the instructional design framework for you, and then provides you the tools that you can use to create effective courses for any audience and on any subject. It exposes you to the magic of instructional design, which can make your course or trainings outshine those that are created on purely intuitive basis.