INSTRUCTIONAL SYSTEMS DESIGN
Creation of a training program
The project below is the result of Instructional Systems Design (ISD or ID) class. My project is about solving the issue of technical documentation within a tech company, therefore the training material created is a two-hours workshop on the introduction of a smart speaker in order to improve technical documentation among software engineers and developers.
The workshop allows the participants to understand, get familiar with and utilize a new technology that will allow them to document software development processes in an easier manner.The participants in the workshop are nine and are samples from three large groups of software engineers within the company: highly-experienced, mildly-experienced, newly-hired employees.
For two hours, the participants are introduced to the issue and the solutions that the company came up with and did not work, the new effective solution that is very technology-related which is a smart speaker named Techna and is solely used for technical documentation and an activity that allows them to get a closer experience with this product by ordering it to do the tasks they had difficulty with.
DISCLAIMER: Please note that the project's is strictly fictional and was used for the purpose of the assignment only.
The workshop allows the participants to understand, get familiar with and utilize a new technology that will allow them to document software development processes in an easier manner.The participants in the workshop are nine and are samples from three large groups of software engineers within the company: highly-experienced, mildly-experienced, newly-hired employees.
For two hours, the participants are introduced to the issue and the solutions that the company came up with and did not work, the new effective solution that is very technology-related which is a smart speaker named Techna and is solely used for technical documentation and an activity that allows them to get a closer experience with this product by ordering it to do the tasks they had difficulty with.
DISCLAIMER: Please note that the project's is strictly fictional and was used for the purpose of the assignment only.
Needs Assessment
This document is a needs assessment that provides the background for the project and the goals it must achieve.In this document, I stated the background of the project, the research I did in order to throughly understand the issue that the company tackles, the business need of the company, the performance problem with a current and an ideal scenario as well as the tasks of the learners in their current and ideal performance, the targeted learners, the objectives, the constraints, and the evaluation of the learners linked to the issue in hand.
Design plans
This document explains the medium used in order to attain the learning goals, as well as the reasoning behind it, the description of the medium, the instructional strategy followed and the program structure
Concept map
This concept map is an illustrated explanation that described the relationship between all of the objectives covered in the learning program, and the strategy for presenting those objectives to the learners. It incorporates the design, the objectives, the learners, the instructional strategy and the program constraints.
Training product
This document is a learning program that addresses the needs identified in the project. The training medium used in this project is a two-hours instructor-led workshop. In this guide, the instructor gets to know what the event is about, a description of the workshop, the target audience, the goal, the desired outcomes, how to prepare for the workshop thanks to a checklist, instructors that need to be followed for a successful experience, and helpful tips to wrap up the training program.
Formative Evaluation
This document is a plan for conducting a formative evaluation of these materials.This document presents the strategy used in order to conduct the formative evaluation of the workshopThis evaluation is supposed to be implemented throughout the development of this training program and not after conducting it with the actual learners. It targets the training program, not the participants. This evaluation consists of a usability review, a technical review and an editorial review with samples.