Learning and Development Education Programs

ASTD offers education programs to help individuals in the learning and development community develop the skills they need to be successful. Use the search feature to find the learning and development education program that’s right for you, or expand your search to over 50 ASTD education programs on a variety of topics. All programs can be brought on-site and customized for your organization.

Designing Synchronous Learning Certificate

This program enables participants to create learner-centric collaborative exercises using synchronous tools and design instructional materials to support their online learning programs. Throughout the program, best practice tips for online training design that leads to maximum learning transfer will be explained, modeled, and reinforced.  More »

Essentials of Adobe Captivate 6: An Introduction

This interactive virtual classroom workshop provides expertguidelines to make online learning the best it can be. Participantswill be guided through best practice scenarios regarding recording,adding interactivity, and working with audio. More »

Essentials of Articulate Studio

Learn the basics of creating self-paced training programs withArticulate Studio 09 in this engaging, hands-on workshop. Aftercompleting three 90-minute live sessions, you will be able tocreate a program that incorporates audio, interactions, quizzes,and video straight from your PowerPoint materials. Though thisprogram will focus primarily on use of Presenter, all Studio 09applications will be covered. More »

Essentials of Camtasia Studio 8: An Introduction

This one-day live, online workshop provides a high-levelintroduction to Camtasia Studio 7, a software package that allowsyou to quickly and easily create high-quality training and salesvideos for mobile devices and the Web. More »

Essentials of E-Learning Authoring Tools

In this virtual workshop, participants will classify the elementsof a good e-learning software design suite and be able to describewhat tool types they will need to create online learning. More »

Essentials of Flash for E-Learning Designers

Adobe Flash has two distinct audiences: the hardcoreprogrammer/developer and the creative designers. As aninstructional designer or e-learning designer, where does thatplace you? Rapid E-Learning software relies on Flash and Flashelements to add interactivity, but most high-quality e-learningcourses are built entirely in Flash. Where do you begin learning?This online workshop covers creating and animating graphics,buttons and movie symbols; designing a custom interface using toolsavailable within Flash; programming foundation ActionScript 3.0 tocreate interactions, navigation and communication elements; andcreating a Flash-based online learning course using both design andprogramming best practices. More »

Essentials of Podcasts, Video and Writing for the Web

Essentials of Podcasts, Video, and Writing for the Web covers thethree key media that can be used to easily develop to enhanceonline learning products. More »

Essentials of Scenario-Based E-Learning

This interactive online workshop will cover the features of SBeLand the tasks and learners that benefit most from SBeL.Participants will also have the opportunity to use their owncontent to design a SBeL e-learning lesson, including draftingstoryboards. More »