INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN for SENIOR PROFESSIONALS ONLINE COURSE
( IDSP Online)

§ Registrations OPEN for the 7th session of IDSP Online
(Session starting on April 01, 2009) §

Course Name: Instructional Design for Senior Professionals Online Course- IDSP Online

Who Should Join this Course?

• Training Managers/Senior Training Managers with more than 4 years of experience who would like to use instructional design knowledge to enable their teams create and implement better training programs.
• eLearning Project Managers/Project Leaders/Delivery Managers with more than 4 years of experience who wish to use the concepts of instructional design to communicate more effectively with clients as well as their teams.
• Instructional Design Reviewers/Analysts with more than 4 years of experience, who have worked in eLearning content development and wish to map their practical knowledge to the concepts of instructional design.
• Senior Trainers with more than 4 years of experience who would like to learn instructional design to map it to their current jobs and make their trainings more effective.
• Sales/Marketing Managers working in the area of training/eLearning for more than 4 years who wish use the knowledge of instructional design to communicate more effectively and profitably with their clients.
• Lecturers, Readers, and Professors working for more than 4 years; who would to use instructional design to make their classes more interesting and effective.

• Please Note:

• If you are a trainer who is an expert in using instructional design for classroom training, but would like to learn about eLearning, please look at the content outline for the ELT Online course.

• If you are not a trainer and you are relatively new to Instructional design; and if your purpose is to learn instructional design for designing and developing eLearning content, please check the IDCWC Online course.

• If you are a trainer who would like to learn instructional design systematically and apply it to enhance the effectiveness of your training programs, please look at the content outline of the IDT Online course.

Pre-requisites for the Course :

• Experience of 4 or more years in any of the following areas:
  • training content development
  • eLearning content development
  • eLearning project management
  • eLearning sales/marketing
  • training management
  • training sales/marketing
  • teaching in a college/university
• Good command over written English.
• The candidate taking this course should be a graduate.

Course Objectives: Upon successfully completing this course the learner should be able to:

1. apply the knowledge of instructional design theories and models to manage content development, training implementation, and client communication effectively.
2. apply the knowledge of instructional design to current job to establish knowledge-leadership in any learning-oriented function.

IDSP Online - Content Outline:  

1. Approaches to Instructional Design
2. Application of Behaviorism
3. Application of Cognitivism and Constructivism
4. Content/training development process & the ADDIE model.
5. Application of the Cognitive Load Theory in content creation/training delivery.
6. Application of Robert Mager’s framework for defining objectives
7. Different learning styles & content creation/training delivery
8. Learning and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
9. Keller’s ARCS model of motivation
10. eLearning/training and the ARCS model
11. The three learning domains and their inter-dependency
12. Dave’s taxonomy and psychomotor domain content creation
13. Krathwohl’s taxonomy and affective domain content creation
14. Bloom’s taxonomy and cognitive domain content creation
15. Gagne’s nine events of instruction
16. The practical application of Gagne’s design framework
17. Dale’s cone of experience
18. Use of Dale’s classification in the learning mediums of today
19. Knowles’ theory of andragogy
20. Impact of culture on the application of adult learning principles
21. Reigeluth’s elaboration theory and its application in organizing content
22. The Kirkpatrick model for Summative Evaluation and its application
23. Dick and Carey model for systematic design of instruction
24. David Merrill’s ID2 and interactive learning
25. An overview of the CDT and ITT
26. Future directions for Instructional Design

IDSP Online - Learning Methodology:

• Course Design, Development, Implementation based on Instructional Design Principles
• Readings - Lectures
• Case-studies
• Interactive activities to guide learning
• Professional Tips
• Interactive exercises with immediate feedback
• Module-wise Assignment Submissions & Review
• Online Discussions (asynchronous*)- facilitated by Shafali R. Anand (Editor & Publisher - Wavelength the ID Newsletter)
• Online Test at the end of the course
• Continuous evaluation & feedback

(*Asynchronous discussions allow participation according to your convenience.)

Duration: 2 Months (April 01, 2009 - May 31, 2009)

Facilitated By:

• Shafali R. Anand (Editor & Publisher - Wavelength the ID Newsletter) (Read more about her...)

Course Fee:

• For domestic candidates (residing in India) - INR 12,000.
• For international candidates (residing outside India) - USD 645.

(INR: Indian National Rupee; USD: United States Dollar)

IDSP Online - Certificate:

• Upon successfully completing this course you will receive Instructional Design for Senior Professionals Certificate from Wavelength.

How to join the IDSP Online Course:

Step 1:

• Please download the application form by clicking on this link.
• Take a print-out of the registration form and complete it in your own handwriting.
• Mail (post) the completed application form to us with the following documents:
  1. A copy of your High-School (class X) certificate ( for proof of date of birth)
  2. A copy of your graduation certificate ( for proof of graduation)
  3. Two passport-size photographs, self-attested at the reverse.

Your application, complete in all respects, along with the supporting documents (mentioned above) should reach us before February 28, 2008. (Please do not send any checks or Demand Drafts at this stage.)

After you have couriered your form along with the documents, please send us an email at idsponline[at]vibrantwavelength[dot]com * , confirming the same, with subject “Application for IDSP Online Sent.”

.(*Please replace "[at] and [dot]com " with "@ and .com " respectively when you send us an email.)

Send your application form to:

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The Director
Wavelength eLearning Consulting & Training Pvt. Ltd.
Link House, 2nd Floor
C-4, Sector 10, Noida - 201301, India.
Phone: 9810324284 / 91-0120-431505
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Wavelength shall review the application. If accepted, you will receive an email with your application number and payment details for the Demand Draft within 3 days of approval. It is advisable that you send your documents as soon as possible to avoid last week rush.

Step 2:
Please mention your name and the application number received through our email at the back of the fee Demand Draft (DD). The DD should be payable at New Delhi and should be drawn in favor of "Wavelength eLearning Consulting and Training Pvt. Ltd.". The course fee DD should be received by Wavelength latest by March 10, 2009 for the IDSP Online session commencing on April 01, 2009.

IDSP Online - Important Dates: (for the course commencing on April 01, 2009)

• Last Date of receiving application forms: February 28, 2009.
• Last Date of receiving the course fee: March 10, 2009.
  

A Closer Look at the IDSP Online:

The IDSP Online addresses a mature and very experienced audience, in a language that they would feel comfortable with. It implements all facets of instructional design, through creative and highly interactive activities and scenarios. This course requires that you commit 2 hours of your time every day for 2 months, and it promises that you will not regret. This course expects you to fall in love with the pure logic of instructional design and it concocts the potions that bind your attention and affection.

The IDSP course appreciates your needs. It knows that you are hard-pressed for time, that you have ample experience to evaluate and map the instructional design concepts to, and that you have moved beyond designing courses and writing scripts personally. This course is designed to address your need to learn instructional design, analyze instructional design problems in relation to your work, and come up with instructionally sound solutions within moments. It assumes that your team will effectively put together trainings/courses that you would have envisioned in your client-meetings.

This course is resplendent with case-studies that present scenarios that will engage you and help you see each ID theory or model applied to training, content development, client-interaction, and teaching situations.

The IDSP (Instructional Design for Senior Professionals) Online is a two-month online course that is designed and developed for the seasoned professionals who have now progressed beyond storyboard and design document creation, but who wish to learn Instructional Design for gaining a distinctive edge in their chosen professions.

• Are you an eLearning project leader/project manager who has intuitively worked to create great design documents and storyboards in the past, but who now wishes to learn the instructional design concepts to communicate better with the client, the team, even the management?
• Are you a content reviewer who feels that a systematic understanding of the instructional concepts will make your reviews more powerful, and help you strengthen the courage of your convictions through purity of logic?
• Are you a trainer who has been training for a while, but who now heads a team of trainers? Do you feel the need to know instructional design in order to direct your team correctly through the use of instructional logic?
• Are you an academician who has been teaching in a university for many years and who wants to make the classes more alive and interesting, the notes more effective, and the learner experience more vivid, through the use of the instructional design principles?
• Are you a marketing/sales manager for an eLearning or training organization who wants to win the clients over by representing the instructional expertise of your organization, in your own communication?

If you are…you are the one we seek as our course participant for the IDSP Online course.

This course interacts with you from the perspective of an experienced individual who is focused on determining the multiple interpretations of instructional design concepts. It ensures that you assume a cognitive leadership in any knowledge-based organization or institution.

For any inquiry regarding IDSP Online course, please contact:

The Course Coordinator (IDSP Online)
Wavelength eLearning Consulting and Training Pvt. Ltd.
Link House, 2nd Floor
C-4, Sector 10, Noida - 201301, India.
Phones: 91-120-4315505 / 91-9810324284
email: idsponline[at]vibrantwavelength[dot]com*

* Please replace "[at] and [dot]com " with "@ and .com " respectively when you send us an email.

The IDSP Online Course
Participants' Views...

"The course was excellent! – pitched at exactly the right level for senior Instructional Design professionals. I was very impressed with the structure, consistent quality, and well… every aspect of the course. The discussion forums were a great platform to interact with fellow IDs. The learning interactions were well designed and stimulating. The examples were very useful and practical. The best part was, as and when I progressed through the course, I could understand that the course not only taught me the theories and models, but also applied them so well at every stage, be it Bloom's taxonomy, andragogy, or Gagne's nine events of instruction.

It was quite challenging to meet the timelines of the course with my busy schedule, but I enjoyed every moment I spent with the course. The course met all my expectations and beyond!

It was truly a wonderful experience for me to attend the IDSP course. I have been recommending the beginner courses to my juniors and also IDSP to many of my peers. I appreciate and congratulate the Wavelength team for this great effort.”

Archana Arun,
Lead Instructional Designer,
Sterling Commerce Solutions, Bangalore

"I have really enjoyed your course and this especially in view of the fact that I had some doubts about the online medium. I have been into classroom teaching and am a die-hard believer in that! I took the course because I realised online teaching can reach more people and could well become a necessity in many cases.

I was pleasantly surprised when I found myself enjoying the course. One of the reasons I think is the way the jargon has been introduced - with good interactive pieces and examples that helped me correlate my experience with the new jargon. The other important point has been the course facilitator - her posts in the discussion forum were thought provoking and very focussed. In addition I was very pleased with her comments in the assignments - she explains why she thinks your point is not absolutely right very clearly. Thanks once again from a die-hard classroom teacher who is willing to become an online one after taking your course. (I am at level 4 of Krathwohl's taxonomy - Organizing Values!)”


Prathima Rajan,
Manager (Indexing),
SPI Technolgies, Chennai

"I thank you and your team very much for giving me an opportunity to undergo the IDSP online course. It really is a wonderful training. I learnt a lot during the course. The course content, the structure and methodology is superb.

With my busy schedule, I could give my time to the course and acquired the skills of ID. I would like to do other related courses, which will help me to have an even stronger grip over the subject. If you launch any such courses, please inform me.”

Farooq Badami,
Vice President (HR & D),
Fluid Technolgies, Bellary

"I thoroughly enjoyed the IDSP online course. The interactions on the discussion forum were stimulating and informative. The eight-week course packed in just the right amount of information and knowledge. The introduction to various ID theories and concepts was crisp and informative. It created an urge to learn more – especially about the latest developments in the space of learning.

The various activities were designed to make the participants think and apply the concepts learnt through the course. The learning interactions were well spaced, and there was no pressure, though the timelines kept us on our toes. Most important, I never experienced the loneliness, seen as an inherent drawback of online learning. Complete credit for this goes to the Wavelength team for their prompt responses.

Overall, I would recommend the course to anyone associated with training/learning.”

Nivedita Kuruvilla,
Senior Manager (eLearning),
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Mumbai

"I have not regretted a minute spent on this course. Only regret probably is that it came to an end. I have been recommending this course and IDCWC as well to my friends as well as family members.

Each module exceeded my expectation. I would not have believed it possible to learn so much--theory as well as practical application--in the course of two months. Yet, the course was structured such with interactions and learning checks that I did not feel the pressure at all. It was challenging, testing my abilities, yet enjoyable… I can feel the difference it is making to my work almost everyday.

I enjoyed the interactions and learning checks. They were very well spaced out and never once let me feel that I have been doing nothing but passively reading. The learning checks were never too easy and would not allow complacency to set in.

I believe the future of knowledge management is in eLearning and IDSP gave me a head start. There are so many concepts that have become clear to me and I feel confident about voicing my opinion at work. Thank you.”

Sahana Chattopadhyay,
Lead Content Developer, Tata Interactive Systems, Mumbai

"In a nutshell, it was a very informative course and I do feel a lot confident in talking about the nuances of Instructional design. The assistance provided by Wavelength & The promptness of responses to questions either over email or on the discussion forum made up for the lack of face-to-face interaction. So, thank you for all your time and effort!
I wish you continued success too!”

Yamini Hirvey,
Deputy Manager (Trg.), IBM-Daksh, Delhi.

"In toto, the IDSP Online Course has been a positive learning experience. I thoroughly enjoyed the eight weeks I spent on the course.

Did I learn? Yes, I did. Does what I learnt help me do a better job as a senior ID / Project Manager? Yes, it does. I find that the IDSP course is very practical and can be used to help you do a better job, from writing learning objectives, to evaluating content in terms of cognitive load, and then deciding how to present that content to the learner.

I recommend this course to anybody who is even remotely connected with facilitating learning, instructor-led or CBT.

Thanks to the team at Wavelength for making the course a great learning experience!”

AB Apana,
Associate Manager, Intelligroup, Bangalore

"The course was conducted quite well and it was a wonderful experience to have had the opportunity to learn about instructional design, particularly when one is working and trying to accommodate the time for learning. The forum and discussions were quite enlightening. Some pointers provided in the course prompted good learning and investigations into the developments in the industry.

Thanks again for a wonderful experience.”

Sundar Krishna Murthy,
Creative Manager,
Indegene LifeSystems, Bangalore

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