Practical Instructional Design is not a book on learning theories, tactics, or how people learn – plenty of books already cover this. Instead, this book provides a step-by-step process that supports a quality assurance methodology, and a rigor that makes your training defensible. This is the book for those of us who were not taught how to do instructional design when we were told we are now instructional designers or instructors. Most of us were not trained as IDs, some teams are stood up with inexperienced people, and still others may have years of experience not knowing there is a different or more accurate way to do the job. Any role in Learning and Development – training manager, curriculum designer, L&D specialist, etc. – can benefit from this book.
The foundational principle of this book is creating a process that documents every step of creating training, what I call a “training chain of evidence.” When training is not making the impact expected, stakeholders and business leaders attack the course design and instructors who are typically creating training from their “background, training, and experience.” The days of “background, training, and experience” are over in the face of a science and research based learning industry. Instead, training needs to be based on “research, observation, and analysis.”
This process for creating training is based on decades of learning science and instructional design processes; it is the result of creating training in industries that are highly regulated. Highly regulated industries are concerned about direct and vicarious liability, which impacts every organization and employee. Case law and precedence exists from public safety regarding training which directly reflect issues found in corporate training that can be immediately rectified, while also supporting learning science which can provide a foundation for performance and training improvement.
All the tools, documents, and templates to support a complete methodology for creating training are provided with explanations and activities to create a course as you work through the book. Every step of the process creates a piece of evidence of “why” the course delivers the content and assesses participant performance the way it does. It provides a path of why the training request resulted in the product produced.
In Practical Instructional Design, there is 486 pages of:
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- A process for creating defensible training using established and researched frameworks, methods, and concepts, and theories put to practice
- Design and evaluation methods for measuring performance – of the course and the participants through time.
- Templates, documents, examples, and activities to build a course while working through the book.
- Options for maximizing your learning experience with free access to videos, links for creating a class, and the ability to get a certificate of completion by completing tasks and receiving feedback.
With your pre-order purchase, you get:
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- A 20% discount on the paperback or eBook
- $59.95 for the paperback
- $43.95 for the electronic version
- A folder of all the electronic files of all of the documents and templates in the book for free – a $50 savings
- A free one-hour consultation – a $120 savings
- A 20% discount on the paperback or eBook
Pre-order ends November 25th.
All books are estimated to be delivered by Christmas.