Following the success of its new instructional design (ID) course, called íMore than Instructional Designí, Trainer1 - one of the UKí independent e-learning consultancy and development specialists - is to begin running the course in selected locations throughout the USA.
Cities include: Atlanta, Chicago and Dallas with the next course in Atlanta in late June.
The two-day course covers every aspect of ID in e-learning and goes on to explain how some of the layout design has instructional links. It concludes with a realistic workshop that provides delegates with some real practice in using ID principles to create e-learning materials. This is an instructional design course with a difference; this course is a must if you want to know why people read and remember some things and not others.
The course incorporates íThe four íAís of Learningí, a new model of ID developed by Trainer1ís managing director, Neil Lasher. In this model, Lasher has encapsulated the lessons of 20 years of designing e-learning and related materials to produce a model for ID specifically relating to task-based and workflow e-learning.
The course objectives include:
- Understanding the e-learner and what they understand
- What is the blend that is acceptable
- Content, gimmicks, humour and games
- The psychology of e-learning versus the classroom
- Layout and design considerations to learn from - how design gets in the way
- How not to create a failure (what turns the user off) learn by otherís mistakes
- What is the íeí in learning and where can it be best deployed
- Who is the developer and what s/he is expected to do in the project
When asked why people should attend this course, Lasher replied:
E-learning is very misunderstood from a learning perspective, lots of people understand the new technologies and try to relate class based ID techniques to this medium. Many technological gimmicks are in use as well...
Could you imagine going to a two day training course and the trainer had on a clownís outfit? Then at the first break he started to do magic tricks; produced a white rabbit from his hat? After lunch, he changed into scuba gear and talked all afternoon with a snorkel in his mouth....what would you remember?.....
Come on this course and you will gain the attention of the clown, but the knowledge of how to let them take the content away too.
For dates and times of Trainer1ís íMore than Instructional Designí course - both in the UK and USA, visit www.trainer1.com/trainer1_training_instructional_design_course.html or contact Trainer1 on 00 44 (0) 20 7264 4844.
Trainer1 takes revolutionary instructional design course to the US
Trainer1 is to begin running the course in selected locations throughout the USA
