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INSTRUCTIONAL
DESIGN & CONTENT WRITING CERTIFICATE ONLINE
COURSE (The IDCWC Online)
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs) -
IDCWC Online - FAQs:
Following are some of the questions that you may have about the
IDCWC Online course.
(A Closer Look at IDCWC Online
Course)
Q1
I see that you have two different courses
that are related to instructional design? How’s one course
different from another?
Ans:
Actually, there are two different Instructional Design courses.
These courses cater to different audience groups.
Here are short summaries of the courses and their corresponding
audiences.
- The IDCWC Online (Insructional
Design and Content Writing Certificate) course
aims at enabling the learner to design courses and create storyboards
for content development. The IDCWC Online course focuses on content
development professionals who are new to the field and who are
engaged in content creation for eLearning. Thus, the right audience
for the IDCWC Online course is an individual
who is excellent at writing English and who wishes to learn Instructional
Design with an eLearning focus.
Thus, the audience for this course would include content writers,
instructional designers (working for eLearning/non-eLearning organizations),
trainers, teachers, and other professionals working in the area
of content development.
- The IDSP Online (Instructional
Design for Senior Professionals) course aims at
equipping the senior professionals from learning/training organizations
or institutions, with instructional design. This course assumes
that you have ample experience in a learning/training-related
area of work, and you would like to decide how instructional design
maps to your work and how it can enhance it. Thus,
the audience for the IDSP Online course include project managers,
training managers, sales managers, delivery managers, senior trainers,
and senior academicians; who have grown into management positions.
Following is a comparison of the IDCWC Online and the IDSP Online
courses.
| IDCWC
Online and IDSP Online (A
Comparison) |
| Course
Name |
Designed
For |
Who
Should Enroll |
Pre-requisites
§ |
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Learner's
Viewpoint |
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Experienced Learning professionals (4+ Years or more experience)
who wish to acquire knowledge leadership through Instructional
Design knowledge.
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ELearning Team-leaders, Project Managers, Training Managers,
Academicians (Lecturers/Professors), Heads of L&D Departments
of organizations,Trainers/Training Content Designers
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At least 4 years of experience in a learning related area.
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Apply instructional design principles to acquire knowledge-leadership
in your area of work.
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Freshers/eLearning Professionals who wish to learn instructional
design and apply it to eLearning
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Instructional Designers/Content Developers/Freshers/Parallel
entrants into eLearning,Trainers/Training Content Designers
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None except those indicated through the §.
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Apply instructional design to create effective eLearning
content.
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·§ Good
Command over English & Graduation are pre-requisites for all
Wavelength courses.
Q2
Will all the reading material be online?
Ans:
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?
Ans:
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?
Ans:
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?
Ans:
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?
Ans:
§ 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?
Ans:
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?
Ans:
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?
Ans:
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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?
Ans:
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.
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.
| IDCWC
Online - Course Highlights |
| 1. |
Use of semi-formal
language, which leads to an amicable learning space. |
| 2. |
Contextual
examples present instructional concepts and their application
in a practical hue (of the eLearning & training industry.) |
| 3. |
More
than 150 learning interactions and activities guide learning
by engaging your mind. |
| 4. |
Case-based
activities and exercises help reinforce the learning at
higher levels. Thus enabling you to use instructional design
and content development concepts in creation of content. |
| 5. |
Optional
exercises for those who love to explore. |
| 6. |
Fortnightly
assignments to be submitted online for review and feedback.
These assignments focus on application of concepts and help
you assimilate them. |
| 7. |
Fortnightly
online discussions, which shall be facilitated by Shafali
R. Anand (Editor & Publisher, Wavelength - The
Indian Instructional Design Newsletter.) The discussions
shall allow you to reflect upon and share your experiences.
According to Andragogy, adults learn best when they collaborate.
This forum provides you an opportunity to do just that. |
| 8. |
Monthly
quizzes to assess your learning. |
| 9. |
Final
Project, which you shall be submitting online in form of
in-process assignments for feedback and guidance. |
| 10. |
Course
design as per instructional design principles. |
| 11. |
Active
support through email and telephone. |
| 12. |
Clear, simple-to-use,
and efficient interface. |
| 13. |
World-class
graphics. |
| 14. |
Continuous
grading and evaluation, ensures that you learn all the
way. |
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.
For any inquiry
regarding IDCWC Online course, please
contact:
The Course Coordinator
(IDCWC Online)
Wavelength eLearning Consulting and Training Pvt. Ltd.
A - 84, Second Floor
Sector 65, Noida - 201301, India.
Phones: 91-120-4572760 / 91-9810324284
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