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Practical Instructional Design for Workplace Learning

Designed for Doing

About to build a 55-slide deck nobody’s going to read? Let’s talk first.

Designed for Doing is an applied, self-paced course for subject matter experts, trainers, and managers who’ve been asked to create training without ever being taught how. You’ll learn to make intentional design decisions that keep learners engaged and improve what they actually do back on the job.

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9 Modules

Your Pace Self-Paced

1 Real Problem

1 Design Blueprint

Learn by Doing

You’re not here to study instructional design. You’re here to use it.

Choose a problem from your own workplace or use the provided client scenario. Then work through the decisions an instructional designer makes to turn a performance problem into an intentional learning solution. Each module adds another piece to your Training Design Blueprint.

Analyze

Find out what’s really happening before deciding that training is the answer.

Design

Define what people need to do and decide what evidence will show success.

Build

Create practical learning activities and resources people can actually use.

Evaluate

Look beyond completion and ask whether the solution changed performance.

What You’ll Build

Your Training Design Blueprint

This isn’t a collection of assignments you’ll never look at again. Across the course, you’ll build one practical blueprint for a learning solution — from the original performance problem through implementation and evaluation.

Ready?

Start with the problem, not the PowerPoint.

Bring a workplace challenge of your own or use the provided scenario. We’ll build from there.

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Course Design Overview →

Course goals, learning theory, assessment approach, technology, and design rationale.

References — sources cited throughout the course