Moving Into Instructional Design

Basics for Technical Writers

Stephen Van Esch - http://stephenvanesch.com

What We’ll Cover• Skills you can leverage

• Skills you want to learn

• An overview of the instructional design process

• Taking full advantage of your writing skills

How many people here have developed training or e-

learning?

Goals

Not Training

Instructional Design Technical Writing

Instructional Design

Technical Writing

• Communication!

• Working with SMEs

• Organizing Information

• Audience Analysis

• Process

What You Bring

• Training Needs Analysis

• Training Development Lifecycle

• Pedagogical Approaches

Best Places to Improve

Scratching the Surface

Two Areas

• Process

• Learning Objectives

Process

ADDIE

AnalyzeDesignDevelopImplementEvaluate

Analyze

Design

Develop

Implement

Evaluate

ADDIE Adjustments

Scratching the Surface

Learning Objectives

Components of a Learning Objective

Stem + Action word + Learning

Statement

Components of a Learning Objective

After completing this session, you will be

able to…

Stem

After completing this session, you will be able

to write…

Action Word

Learning Statement

After completing this session, you will be able

to write aLearning Objective

Bloom’s Taxonomy and Action Words

http://electriceducator.blogspot.ca/

Let’s Simplify

RememberUnderstandApplyAnalyzeEvaluateCreate

The Real World

RememberUnderstandApplyAnalyzeEvaluateCreate

Remember

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to …….…

listreciteoutlinedefinenamematchrecalllabel

recognize

Remember

Apply

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to …….…

calculatepredictapplysolveshow

illustrateuse

demonstrateperform

Apply

Analyze

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to …….

distinguishexaminecompareidentifyexplaincontrastseparateclassify

categorize

Analyze

Your Turn!

Stem +

listreciteoutlinedefinenamematchrecalllabel

recognize

calculatepredictapplysolveshow

illustrateuse

demonstrateperform

distinguishexaminecompareidentifyexplaincontrastseparateclassify

categorize

+ LS

REMEMBER APPLY ANALYZE

Stay on Track!

Learning ObjectivesAfter you complete this session, you will be able to:

• Explain the difference between documentation and training

• List the skills you have as a technical writer that can be used in instructional design

• Outline each part of the instructional design process

• Write a learning objective

Recap• Documentation and training have different

goals

• You have many skills you can apply to your ID projects

• Following the ADDIE process can help you develop effective training

• Write effective learning objectives to help stay on track

• Constantly refer back to your LOs when you write your training material

References

Learning Theories map - http://www.hotel-project.eu/content/learning-theories-map-richard-millwoodBloom’s Taxonomy - http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/blooms-taxonomy/

Questions?

A Request

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Would anyone here be willing to buy a course or ebook geared to technical writers who want to be better instructional designers?