INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN FOR SENIOR PROFESSIONALS ONLINE COURSE
( The IDSP Online)

- FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs) -

IDSP Online - FAQs:

Following are some of the questions that you may have about the IDSP course. If your question is not answered here, please feel free to contact us at
idsponline [at] vibrantwavelength [dot] com. The Wavelength team will respond to your query within 24 hours.

(A Closer Look at IDSP 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.

1. 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.
   
   
2. 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.

Following is a comparison of the the IDSP Online and the IDCWC Online courses.

·§ 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 an 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's office?

Ans:
No. The main idea behind online courses is to provide you the convenience of taking the course from a location convenient to you (your home/office). 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, and online test are graded. You will need to achieve pass grade in these.
§ You will also have to ensure that you have completed all the activities within the stipulated time.

Q7
You've asked us to complete the form and send you copies of some documents. What are they for?

Ans:
As the IDSP course is designed to meet the needs of a seasoned industry professional, it is required that all those who enroll for this course have substantial experience in an area that is related to learning. Wavelength reviews your application as well as the other required documents to ensure that your profile maps correctly to the audience profile for the course.

Q8
Will you help us be placed?

Ans:
This course, like other Wavelength courses is a value-enhancement course. The ability to synthesize solutions for instructional design problems and to use the knowledge of instructional design to communicate effectively with the external/internal clients and your team, is what you shall achieve through this course. This course is not a course that you should take if you do not have at least four years of work-experience in a learning-related field.

Wavelength's courses aim at enabling our course participants become invaluable assets for the organizations that they work with. It is the ability acquired through Wavelength courses, that has seen many of our course participants join the top eLearning/training organizations of India. Yet, the accelerating value of Wavelength certification is credited to our course participants and their zeal to apply their learning to their work.

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

Q9
I am a graduate and I've worked for about an year as a trainer. Will this course help me?

Ans:
This course requires that the participants have worked for at least four years in a learning-related industry. The IDCWC Online course will suit you better.

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 focussed on determining the multiple interpretations of instructional design concepts. It ensures that you assume a cognitive leadership in any knowledge-based organization or institution.