I think we can get started. Eva. Alright, let's get started. So hello, my name is have you the Heyne, and I am the Program Director for the instructional design programs. So thanks for joining us. I'll talk today a little bit about the program, what we're offering. I'm here to answer any questions you may have about the program as well. So with that, I'll kick it off. And I'll just kinda little bit of background here. I became instructional designer and a very roundabout way. And a lot of folks working in the profession, that's also the case. So this program is really to help folks sort of structure that learning experience, learn more about the profession and get the skills that they need if they are interested in entering this profession. Alright, so the agenda for this evening, I'm just going to discuss a little bit. What is an instructional designer? Why get into instructional design? The demand for instructional design skills on the market. This program is an on-ramp into instruction design and course and program structure, enrollment and start dates, and Q&A, if anyone has any questions about the program, click the next slide. So what is instructional design? Instructional designers design learning experiences from analysis of learner needs, curriculum design, developing structural materials, implementation of new programs and their evaluation. And while this profession has its roots, here, I'm gonna click through those in classroom-based training and starting historically in the military. Actually, these days, instructional designers are often designing for the digital and online environments, which is what I've been doing. And most instructional designers that I've met, they'd been designing for the online environment. So what is an instructional designer? If there are many similar positions out there that essentially they're doing instructional design and they may not be called Instructional Designer, e.g. learning experience design. That's another more popular one that's invoked these days. So this is really just a shortlist. So if you're interested, e.g. and looking at job boards and wondering, I mean, you really have to go beyond instructional designer to see what's out there. I can tell you that I personally worked as a content developer, which is at the bottom of this list, and that's how I got into instructional design. So this program is offering to kind of on ramps. One may be more re-skilling for career change as Dr. George or if I was talking about maybe you want to change industry hours of work, freelancing remote work, those types of changes. Another one could be on the job. You want to apply instructional design skills to solve a problem, sort of a professional project, or some sort of training eat or learning solution, then you can address with instructional design skills. So this program is really a learner-centered program. We're working to help you get the skills you need to transition into instructional design profession or add new skills to your portfolio to meet the professional learning needs in your organization. That is the goal of the program. I just wanted to put a little question out there. If anyone wants to respond, you can respond in the chat. Why you are interested in this program? What brought you to this program? Is it re-skilling? Are you considering a career transition? Is it upskilling? Are you considering applying new skills on the job and shock them design skills on the job. I just want to read the room a little bit and know where you're coming from. Feel free to add to the chat either directly or to the group. And just to kinda get a sense where people are coming from and what their interest is in this program. Someone said upskilling. I can say that so far. Anyone else want to share no obligation? Upskilling. Okay. We've got a few upskilling ones here. So yeah, that's definitely one of the routes that we're offering in this program is fairly customizable so that you can really build in the goals that you want to achieve in the program. Whether you're working on a professional project and you want to learn the skills or tools to execute it. Or you're really considering a career transition and thinking what would work as instructional designer in the future. Thanks for sharing. Okay, So in terms of this program for re-skilling, being an on-ramp for instructional design. The program's goals to meet people where they are and support them in developing sought-after instructional design skills and building out their professional toolkit. And there are opportunities for application with project-based learning. The course will guide you through an e-learning project relevant to your professional goals. Time commitment for this course is manageable for as a part-time student. These are stackable courses. So the program consists of three courses and foundations of instructional Zionists. The first course, you can take one course, you can take all three courses. Those interested in completing all three courses and completing the program that can be done within one year timeframe. We offer guidance on portfolio building. The facilitators can provide guidance for those who are interested in a career transition and want to put together a portfolio worthy artifacts. And the facilitators are experienced instructional designers who've worked in a variety of industries with different tools and technologies. The other option is more on the job application. Perhaps if a project you're not quite sure what the next steps are, you want to gain some instructional design skills in order to tackle some sort of professional learning project. So this program, especially the first course, introduces instructional design models and practices to plot. Then you can apply. It will help you think through some of the overwhelming amount of tools on the marketplace out there to create all our e-learning. And then throughout the program, the participants who received guidance on their designs from experienced instructional designers. And there's also plenty of opportunities for feedback from folks in the cohort. Students. Why become an instructional designer? These are some pros at the profession, I would say at least this is a pretty versatile profession. First of all, I mean, instructional designers are needed in a variety of industries, corporate government, non-profit, et cetera, higher education, flexibility of the profession, full-time, part-time, in-person, and remote. It really is a profession that has a lot of opportunities for flexibility and you're reconsidering work-life balance is a lot of people have been doing over the last couple of years. There's a lot out there in a lot of jobs that are offered remotely in this area. And then there are many pathways in instructional designers can leverage experience from other areas such as teaching, training, graphic design, web development, audio, video production, and other skills. These are all great skills. You don't need to have all these skills to be instructional designer. But if you come with some of these backgrounds or one of these backgrounds, it's a natural transition. Creativity, very creative profession. You're constantly building and creating new things and lifelong learning, if you like to learn, if you'd like to teach others and who would like to continue learning throughout your career. This is a great place to be. So that's how I see it. At least. The last one is my favorite one, lifelong learning and the opportunities to continue learning throughout. Another just quick question to put out there. Are you currently working in instructional design? You can answer in the chat if you'd like. Yes. Maybe something adjacent like I'd mentioned teaching, training. Let me know where you're coming from. Someone says that they think creating curriculum and training programs. So that's definitely an adjacent sort of thing. Teaching. The one hasn't been doing any training teaching, higher ed teaching? Yes. My co-facilitator for this program, he worked in K12 for many years before moving into instructional design. So that is a very logical and common pathway, especially in higher education instructional design folks that I've worked in K12 teaching. Alright, thanks for sharing with your background there. So it's a little bit about the demand for instructional designers. Way back in 2022, which wasn't that far away. We did a little study and market research to see what the demand was for this profession. And the study determined that there is steady growth in this area, specifically in the mid-Atlantic regions. What we honed in on. Like I said, this is a profession needed in many industries. Health care, higher education, software, tech, publishing, corporate non-profits, so very versatile and we looked across those industries. The analysis also shows that most folks in this job or most of the job that were out there preferred or required a bachelor's degree, not necessarily graduate education. And that is why we designed a non-credit program. There are some programs out there that are like a full graduate program, which obviously is a much larger commitment of time and resources to complete. And we decided to develop something in the non-credit route that could be completed. There was stackable. You didn't have to complete the full program, and it could be completed in a short period of time, relatively. So that's the preference and that graduate education didn't necessarily impact salary as well. That's another thing that the report found they were more interested in years of experience as an instructional designer rather than a graduate education in the field. The median salary that we look that we saw from this report was 67 k in the mid Atlantic. But again, the thing about instructional design, it's remote, flexible, part-time work arrangements. You can live in the mid Atlantic and maybe you work in Texas. So we just really honed in only on this region. So that's what those were our findings from the market research. I'm going to focus a little bit more specifically on the program and what it includes. This program really is a flexible, accelerated program so that people can start applying instructional design in their current positions or pivot to new career opportunities. I said it's three stackable eight-week courses designed for part-time students. The time commitment is estimated about five to 10 h per week. We will have a break in the spring for the spring holidays, e.g. so calendar time would be eight weeks, but the actual study time is eight is eight weeks because of that break. The full program, like I've mentioned, could be completed within one year. Due to the accelerated format. There are customizable course and program goals. We expect students to come from a variety of backgrounds in terms of work experience, education, and skills. So that's really common in instructional design profession. And we, the facilitators will work with folks to really customize the learning to meet their professional goals. These are also project-based courses. So we're focusing on the application of instructional design and best practices. We're going to jump in and just designing e-learning artifacts in the first course and flipped on improvements and iterate on our designs. There's opportunities to do work for professional projects as well. If that's something that someone would, would like to do. There is also a portfolio building option. If someone is interested in making career transition and would like to compile their designs into a portfolio. We can certainly advise on tools for that, the process for that. They can choose to do that throughout the course, or they could wait till the completion of the course ends and build out a portfolio. And even after completion of the course, facilitators are there to provide any feedback on a portfolio. And of course, you also have your fellow students in the cohort that you can share your portfolios with if you're interested in getting feedback from other folks on that. And it's definitely a learning community. Course can be completed fully asynchronously. But we do have live sessions that can be attended and some folks do not or cannot attend those sessions as they are scheduled, then those will be recorded. But there'll be plenty of opportunities to interact as part of a community in our course are online course and discussion forums and other activities that we will have there. And I mentioned the live sessions. And it's an opportunity to build out toolkits. And just sort of, you may already have some access to these tools, but other tools we will provide access to. We can also inform on freemium versions of tools that you may be interested in learning throughout the program. As Vic mentioned, we are proud to offer digital badges for courses and programs starting this March. So that's also exciting. Each course has one badge and then with the completion of the three courses, there's sort of a capstone badge for the full program. And as Vic mentioned, there's also Career Services for program graduates of this program, it will be eligible. Okay, Just a little bit about the portfolio development for those interested in going this route. So each course in the program could several projects that will help you create a portfolio worthy designs and portfolio building, though it's not a requirement for this program. You don't have to do it if it doesn't meet your goals. The course provides resources and tips for building instructional design portfolio. And students can leverage resources, develop a portrait or polar as well after, after the course completion. So you could save those resources and work on it later after the eight weeks, e.g. if that's not something you wanna do it this time. So you have a captive audience. You have the facilitators and you have the students to provide feedback on a portfolio if that's something you would like to do during this time. Alright, and a little bit about e-learning tools. Because this is a question. We get a lot about the tools that we use. It's just also instructional designers talking shop about what tools to use, what tools you have at your job. So there are an abundance of tools out there on the market. And the preference for tools really varies greatly across industry and employers. So for us to go and say, Oh, we're going to teach storyline, that might be a disservice to some people. Some people may already know storyline. It might be, it might not be necessary for certain industries like in K12. That's not something like atrial, excuse me, in higher education. So from designers don't typically work in Storyline much, although they may, I know our instructional designer has worked in it. So our approach is more so thinking what your professional goals are, what you would like to learn. In this program. Especially the first course, we're going to focus on a learning management system, which is a lot easier to get started in and we have access to so you would be able to get experienced with Canvas and the learning management system and build something in that system and get and work on your skills in that area. But if students are interested in learning new tools, we, they will have the opportunity to do so in the course and in the programs, projects. And there are lots of Freemium versions out there for those interested in specific tool like storyline captivate, Camtasia, that is really the way to go premium. And then at some point you capture your designs through screen capture or something like that, because then you have to start paying and they can be very pricey. Some of these tools and facilitators that I've experienced in some of these different tools and they can provide advice and tutorials to help you get started if that is something you're interested in pursuing will provide guidance in general, selecting tools if you're not quite sure what you might want to learn or if you need to learn a new tool. Because sometimes, sometimes the simple ones or do the job, it can be quite unexpected. Stuff that you may already know that you can apply to design e-learning. So that's a little bit about the tools. You have any questions about that and the portfolio again, you can feel free to add it to the chat and I will definitely get to it when we get to the Q&A part. Alright. I'm trying to advance forward, but for some reason, there we go. So just the scheduling of the program, the full program. So the first course, like we said, that's gonna be this March, That's foundations of instructional design. In the second course, we're going to focus more on curriculum development for instructional design. And that's going that is planned to run in June. And then in the fall, e-learning and course development for instructional design is the third course in the program that will run. So that's the overall schedule. So kind of dive a little deeper into foundations of instructional design. The first course is going to run in the spring. These are the learning objectives for the course. If you're interested in getting a quick overview of what we'll be working on. This course really introduces the basics of instructional design just to help gain confidence in the models, theories, and tools commonly used in the profession. There'll be opportunities to create e-learning content and a friendly encouraging learning environment. Students will get comfortable with these different resources and develop a structural design competencies they'll carry over into future e-learning projects in the program. And we just hope this course inspires folks to starting gate creating, engaging, meaningful learning experiences for others. There are no textbooks required for this course. And we have some, we've compiled all sorts of resources that are open the students can use and we can provide also some recommended readings for those who are interested. In general of course features, these are the main components, I would say if our online course we have the actual live sessions. We have interactive modules, web content, videos, discussion boards. There are interactive activities, podcast projects, access to the authoring tools, and additional resources, e.g. if you want to build a portfolio, some resources to get started there. These are just more details about the course. Currently, we have the live sessions planned for 630 to 07:30 P.M. on Thursdays and these are the dates. The pricing, you can scan also the QR code for more information. It will take you to our website, which I will drop the direct link in the chat because that's not always the most practical thing to scan that QR code. There we go. You already heard about some of the discounts that we offer and the pricing. And in this case, there's also pricing for the full program versus the individual courses as well. So you can check out that information on our website. And also Lisa Melbourne is much more knowledgeable and everything related to enrollment than I am. We will have contact information and email you can send to for more information after the presentation. Okay. So a little bit about the facilitators of the course. I've introduced myself. I also work at the University of Delaware division of professional continuing studies. And my background Instructional Design. I've been in a management or leadership role for about a decade. And prior to that, I sort of mysteriously, mysteriously started getting into instructional design through. As I said, I worked as a content developer, also designed curriculum, curriculum for English language learning for overseas. And just slowly kind of got found myself in instructional design over the years. I've worked in education technology, like I said, cross-cultural competency, English language learning, higher education. I've worked on government funded projects through the ed tech company. I worked in the past for the DoD or NSF. So kind of a smattering and little variety of things. At UD, I've worked in non-credit and in credit programming. Then my co-facilitator also, he's instructional designer at the University of Delaware. He's a colleague and he's been instruction design for over a decade previously. He worked in K12 as a teacher. So that's our background for the facilitators, but we also have many other contributors this course that have helped develop the course itself. And they have a presence in the course even though they are not the act of facilitators. And they have experience in higher education and private sector and also K12. And they introduce themselves throughout the courses as well. So it's really been a group effort and work with multiple people contributing their knowledge and expertise in different areas of instructional design. That's a bit about the facilitators. Again, had the QR code, which is that same thing as that link I put in the chat. And if you want to get to the page, while the contrast is pretty bad here where it says at the top foundations of instructional design and the course start date, that didn't transition well when I moved it over to Google presentation, but the course start date is March 30th. Then you have an email here for enrollment questions. If you have any continuing dash registration that you dealt at edu or a phone number you can call 30283176. Zeros. Zero. Alright. So with that, I kind of got into Q&A. And Lisa, I just realized I'd never recorded this. I did I did select the recording, so oh, you did? Okay. Yeah. You saved me back. Okay. Good. Yeah. Great. Okay. Yes. I think it is recording because you were asked to record for those who can't attend. So thank you so much. So that's that's pretty much you. Quick overview of the course. I, if you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them. You can just we're not, we're not a huge groups. You can feel free to unmute yourself if you'd like. Or you could put your question in the chat and I'd be happy to answer. I'll give everyone like they say, You have to wait like 10 s or something like that. So I'm going to lightly senseless seconds and see if anyone has any questions. Okay. Someone responds in a direct message that they're interested in. I think it's interesting. I think people are only able to direct message me in the chat and not contribute to a group chat Lisa. But just something to note. So I will, I will read from the direct messages. So someone mentioned that they're interested in helping in their current position. So they already thinking about how they would like to apply this on the job. And that's something that definitely at the start of the course, facilitators will get to know the students a little bit better where they're coming from, what their goals are out. You have a bunch of questions we want to ask you to help pair you and recommend as far as tools and things that might help you to make your goals? Yeah. Definitely, yes. Instructional designer, something with teaching. It's there's some sort of like symbiotic relationship for instructional designer and teacher. And it's not too surprising that people move between teaching instructional design. Someone mentioned that they're teaching. Someone asked about the pricing for that. I recommend checking out the website. I think there's an all three plus again, there's various discounts that that Vick had mentioned. Just within societies, I can see something. I don't know, this is something that Lisa might be able to speak to you better than I can. Yes. The cost of the certificate program is 4,009, 95. The individual courses, if you just enroll in the individual and individual course, it's 1009 95 per course or 4,009 95 for the entire certificate. Murray also mentioned about retirement and sort of kind of got sort of that transition and working in this field. And I have to say that we have someone on the team that I work with that after retirement, she had been working in K12 for many, many years. And right-click school district, I believe. And she in working on our team, she's sort of moved over to instructional design and she works part-time as a retiree with us. So it's sort of the second career after retirement from K12? Yes. If someone else in our team that were retired from K12 and is working part-time, but non-instructional design something a little bit different. Yeah, thanks for sharing. Any other questions? Well, if you have questions later on, let me go back to the information here. The e-mail and the number if you'd like to call and we set anything else I should know the only color I'm going to put in the chat box is the link to the evaluation. So if you complete that, you can enter for a chance to win 25% off a spring course. Thank you. All right. Anything else? Should they return to the main room, Lisa, or should I don't think they need to? We don't need to. Okay. Well, thank you all for joining us this evening to learn more about this program. As I said, feel free to get in touch if you have any questions. Yes. Thank you. Thank you for attending. And yeah, we're here. If you have any questions about the program. I hope you have a good evening. I'm gonna stick around a little more. If anyone wants to thinks of anything and wants to stay on. If not, then I hope you have a good evening. If you do want to stop the recording. Assuming that it recorded.
UD PCS Instructional Design Info Session
From Lisa Malbone January 17, 2023
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