Advanced Designing Learning Certificate

Program Overview

ASTD's Advanced Designing Learning Certificate Program is a workshop with a deep focus on designing and developing tools and techniques that promote a richer level of learning. In the workshop, participants will use a project they are currently working on. This program provides:

• In-depth instruction on how to design and implement various active learning activities including, but not limited to, role plays, case studies, games, stories, collaborative learning, and other complex, high level activities.
• Opportunities to practice and apply principles of designing learning activities using a current project from your organization.
• Methods and tools for accelerating and simplifying designing learning.
• Activities on how to effectively design non-learning solutions.
• How to design feedback sessions and other means to help effectively engage with subject matter experts.

ASTD Certificate Programs are learning events and a certificate is awarded to participants upon successful completion of the program. No test is given and participants are not certified. Certification is a testing event that confirms that skills, knowledge, or competencies have been acquired. Please click here for more information on the ASTD Certification Institute’s credential, the Certified Professional in Learning and Performance™ (CPLP™).

Learning Objectives

• Distinguish between near and far transfer tasks and identify training methods that lead to deep learning
• Articulate the benefits of the need for learner-centered training
• Design a case study that includes all major elements of best practice case studies using a project from your organization
• Design a role play that includes all major elements of best practice role plays using a project from your organization
• Identify training requirements that benefit from project work and create projects based on your own work environment
• Design collaborative learning techniques including structured argumentation that follow best practices and apply to a project from your organization
• Apply rapid ISD techniques that could be used to develop training
• Understand the best use of multiple performance support techniques that support far transfer work performance after training
• Design games and game features that best support diverse training goals and events.

Topics

• Topic 1 - Training for Understanding

  Topic 1 - Training for Understanding

  Promote Deep Learning in your Training
  

  • What is Deep Versus Shallow Learning? 
  • Factors to Consider: Deep Versus Shallow Learning 
  • Practice: Exercise 1-1: Examples of Deep and Shallow Learning 
  • What are Near Versus Far Transfer Tasks? 
  • Practice: Exercise 1-2: Near and Far Transfer Tasks 
  • Deep Learning Wrap Up
• Topic 2 - Proven Principles of Interactive Learning

  Topic 2 - Proven Principles of Interactive Learning

  • Practice: Exercise 2-1: Proven Principles of Interactive Learning 
  • Active Versus Passive Learning 
  • Active Versus Passive Learning – Experiment 2 
  • Context and Transfer 
  • Number of Practice Exercises
  • Spaced Versus Massed Practice 
  • Feedback 
  • Rote Practice 
  • Worked Examples
• Topic 3 - The Interactive Learning Planner

  Topic 3 - The Interactive Learning Planner

  • The Planner

• Topic 4 - Not Enough Time? Consider Rapid ISD

  Topic 4 - Not Enough Time? Consider Rapid ISD

  • What is Rapid ISD? 
  • Practice: Exercise 4-1: Speeding Up the Process 
  • Rapid ISD Techniques 
  • Sample SME Template: Excel Formulas 
  • Working with Stakeholders 
  • Practice: Exercise 4-2: Exploring Rapid ISD 
  • References
• Topic 5 - Let Them Try It

  Topic 5 - Let Them Try It

  Using Projects to Support Deep Learning

  • What is a Project? 
  • Practice: Exercise 5-1: Design a Project5 
  • Uses of Projects 
  • Practice: Exercise 5-2: Determining Uses of Projects 
  • Practice: Exercise 5-3 Construct a Project Planning Model 
  • Project Decision Checklist 
  • Effective Project Design Checklist 
  • Projects Wrap Up
• Topic 6 - Acting It Out!

  Topic 6 - Acting It Out!

  How To Develop Role Plays that Build Social Interaction Skills or Personalize Learning
  

  • What is a Role Play? 
  • Practice: Exercise 6.1: Would Role Play Improve Learning 
  • Role Play Applications 
  • Role Play Delivery Media 
  • Overcoming Resistance to Role Plays 
  • Designing Role plays 
  • Practice: Exercise 6.2: Design Role Plays for Your Project 
  • Role Play Design Template 
  • Create a Facilitator Guide 
  • Effective Role Play Checklist 
  • Role Play Wrap Up 
  • Guidelines for Giving and Receiving Feedback 
  • Role Play Job Aid
• Topic 7 - Welcome to the Real World

  Topic 7 - Welcome to the Real World

  Using Case Studies to Support Deep Learning
  

  • What is a Case? 
  • Types of Cases 
  • Practice: Exercise 7-1: Name that Case 
  • Uses of Cases 
  • Bringing Cases to Life with Media 
  • Designing Cases 
  • Practice: Exercise 7-2: Designing Cases
  • Designing Cases: The Elements 
  • Practice: Exercise 7-3: Design Your Project Case 
  • Case Study Design Template 
  • Case Study Twists Checklist 
  • Effective Case Study Checklist 
  • Case Study Wrap Up
• Topic 8 - Learning Together in Collaborative Teams

  Topic 8 - Learning Together in Collaborative Teams

  • What is Collaborative Learning? 
  • Guidelines for Effective Collaborative Learning 
  • What is Structured Controversy? 
  • Practice: Exercise 8-1: Structured Controversy 
  • What is a Jigsaw? 
  • Team Work: A Story for Team Organization 
  • Practice: Exercise 8-2: Your Application of Collaborative Learning 
  • Collaborative Learning Checklist 
  • Collaborative Learning Wrap Up 

  
  
• Topic 9 - Extending Knowledge in the Workplace with Performance Support

  Topic 9 - Extending Knowledge in the Workplace with Performance Support

  • Practice: Exercise 9-1: Your Experience with Performance Support 
  • What is Performance Support? 
  • When to Consider Performance Support 
  • Performance Support Formats for Near Transfer Tasks 
  • Integrated Performance Support for Far Transfer Tasks 
  • Performance Support for Far Transfer Tasks
  • Performance Support Delivery Media Checklist 
  • Performance Support Checklist 
  • Practice: Exercise 9-2: Complete the Performance Support Planner 
  • Performance Support Working Aid Prototype 
  • Performance Support Wrap Up
• Topic 10 - Tales Trainers Tell

  Topic 10 - Tales Trainers Tell

  Using Stories to Promote Learning
  

  
  

  • Practice: Exercise 10-1: Tell Your Story 
  • What is a Story? 
  • Practice: Exercise10-2: Why Did You Tell It? 
  • Story Discovery and Organization 
  • Practice: Exercise 10-3: Where Did It Come From? 
  • Getting the Most from Stories 
  • Checklist: Features of a Good Training Story 
  • Practice: Exercise 10-4: Rate Your Stories 
  • Storytelling Wrap Up 
  • Topic 11 - Games Trainers Play: Using Games to Promote Learning 
  • Practice: Exercise 11-1: Share Your Games 
  • What is a Game? 
  • Uses of Games in Training 
  • Practice: Exercise 11-2: The Uses of Games 
  • Pitfalls of Games 
  • Elements of an Effective Game 
  • Getting the Most from Games: The Debrief 
  • Practice: Exercise 11-4: Game Debrief 
  • Sources of Games 
  • Features of a Good Game Checklist 
  • Practice: Exercise 11-5: One Last Game 
  • Games Wrap Up
• Appendix

  Appendix

  • Topic 2 – Proven Principles of Interactive Learning - Summary 
  • Topic 6 – Role Play Audio Script 
  • Topic 7 – Image-tronics Succession Planning Case Study 
  • Topic 7 – Image-tronics Case Study Design Template

Who Should Attend

If you are new to instructional design we recommend our Designing Learning Certificate Program.

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