Advanced Designing Learning Certificate Program
Discover the next step to designing learning activities.
This two-day 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.
Audience
Participants should already have experience in designing learning and have attended at least one basics of instructional design workshop. This course is for individuals that want to improve their competency in designing and developing complex learning activities.
If you are new to instructional design we recommend our Designing Learning Certificate Program.
Course Description
ASTD's Advanced Designing Learning Certificate Program is a two-day 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.
Not sure if the ASTD Advanced Designing Learning Certificate Program is right for you? Then click here for a short pre-screening self-assessment.
Earn 1.4 CEUs upon successfully completing this program. Learn more.
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
After the workshop, participants will be able to:
- 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 stories and story features that best support diverse training goals and events
- Design games and game features that best support diverse training goals and events.
Registration Fees
ASTD Member: US$1,095
Nonmember: US$1,395*
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The registration fee includes all course materials.
Facilitators
To learn more about this program's facilitators, click here.
On-Site Offerings
ASTD can make arrangements for the Advanced Designing Learning Certificate Program to be offered at your organization. You might find it is easier, and more cost effective, for one of our facilitators to come to your site and deliver this workshop to your team. Your attendees participate in the same learning experience offered at our public workshops, but have the convenience of being at your site and the benefit of covering the material with company colleagues.
For additional information on this program, please contact ASTD Customer Care at customercare@astd.org or 703.683.8100.
Interested in bringing this program on-site to your organization? Please contact Amanda Miller at amiller@astd.org or 703.683.9215, or request information through our online form.