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Instructional Designer

Instructional Designer

Are You an Instructional Designer?

As an instructional designer you are likely called upon by your organization to be an expert in adult learning, performance improvement, leadership development, e-learning, and the evolving trends in the field. ASTD Education is here to support you and provide the professional development and training you need to stay ahead of the curve.

Through its hallmark Competency Study and ongoing research efforts, ASTD is the premier source for unbiased, expert-vetted, and credible content for instructional designers.

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Foundational Programs

Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Designing Learning Certificate

This program follows a human performance improvement approach to instructional design and includes practice in needs assessment, job/task analysis, and course design using templates exclusive to ASTD. You will learn to apply a structured step-by-step process toward designing learning programs and apply what you learn to your own work.

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Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Consulting Skills Certificate

Learning and performance professionals must exhibit strong consulting skills in order to achieve success as business partners to the organizations they serve. This program demonstrates the behaviors and processes for effective internal consulting and allows participants to practice fundamental consulting competencies with tools, templates, and checklists that can be put to use in the professional setting immediately. In a recent analysis of application and behavior change, 85 percent of participants studied are applying what they learned back on the job after completing the ASTD Consulting Skills Certificate Program.

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Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Project Management for Learning Professionals Certificate

This program presents concrete steps to improve your project management skills. Participants will learn to manage the critical project management role helping deliver learning and performance solutions that better support their business goals.

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Specialized Programs

Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Advanced Designing Learning Certificate

This program teaches participants how to design and develop learning activities and refresh their existing work. Participants are given the opportunity to practice designing activities using real-time projects and exercises, including role plays, case studies, collaborative learning, stories, and games.

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Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

E-Learning Instructional Design Certificate

The program helps you develop individualized, asynchronous e-learning experiences that motivate learners to change their behavior. Invigorate your traditional instructional design with fresh e-learning techniques based on examples from organizations who have implemented successful asynchronous virtual training programs. Particular attention is paid to how to create instructional design solutions from scratch. This is not a tools or webinar training class and does not address issues of designing and delivering live, virtual instructor-led webinars.

You must bring a LAPTOP COMPUTER running on a windows operating system with you to this program for the purpose of reviewing demonstration e-learning examples and participating in interactive learning activities. The latest version of Adobe Flash Player must be downloaded on your laptop. Please do not bring an iPad or tablet, as the program materials will not function properly on these devices. There will be no laptop computers available onsite.

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Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Creating Leadership Development Programs Certificate

This program supplies participants with an ASTD exclusive model for creating leadership development programs. Using data from their organizations, participants are able to immediately apply what they are learning to their own organizational leadership development initiatives. Most importantly, the ASTD leadership development model includes a process to demonstrate the business value of the leadership development programs.

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Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Blended Learning Certificate

Today's learning professionals are under pressure to address ever-evolving skills needed in their organizations, and they are being asked to do so with limited resources and time. This ASTD program provides the roadmap for creating high-impact solutions that address these needs by combining various learning platforms, methods, and formats to motivate learners, produce real results, and increase productivity. After this workshop, participants will be able to take immediate steps to design blended learning solutions using the tools and action plan provided.

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Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Designing Synchronous Learning Certificate

Organizations today are increasingly using virtual classroom platforms like WebEx, Adobe Connect, and others to convey information and build skills quickly, cost-effectively, and just-in-time, as learners need to know and apply the material. Virtual classroom platforms commonly feature tools such as chat, whiteboards, application sharing, and breakout rooms. Sure, these tools seem cool, but what is the best way to use them from an instructional perspective? This online certificate program enables participants to create learner-centric collaborative exercises using these 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.

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Short instructor-led online workshops that provide timely, relevant, and convenient access to content needed to maintain a competitive advantage in today’s workplace.

Essentials of Scenario-Based E-Learning

Scenario-based e-learning (SBeL)—also known as problem-based learning or whole task learning—is a highly interactive course design that puts the learner in the role of a problem solver responding to realistic workplace problems or situations. The lessons are built around a series of progressively complex workplace assignments or situations. Scenario-based e-learning is a proven method to build expertise in tasks that are unsafe or infrequent in the workplace, or to build critical thinking skills.

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