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                          Instructional Systems Design

Designing learning experiences for professionals is very different from lesson planning for K-12 students. Learn to analyze professional development needs, select appropriate instructional strategies, translate those strategies into products, and evaluate the quality of your work. The ISD approach produces quality training programs, whether you work for a multi-national corporation or a local school district.

By breaking down the elements of what is needed to learn, designing the best and most appropriate way to teach them, constructing outlines for guidance, and assessing the learning outcomes comes the design of instructional systems. This course guided me step by step into focusing on the needs of the learner based on the problem to be solved. The problem could be meeting an objective or solving the dilemma of a faculty or school-wide weakness. The design could be constructed to meet the need of any learner-based problem and developing a strategy to solve it. This is the beauty of the course: it meets any learner situation head-on towards solving the problem and understanding how to create such a system design can be implemented in any type of learning environment.

The problem I chose to solve involved considering a way to create better communications for our staff with student families. Using a faculty online survey, I was able to identify and pinpoint exactly where we could improve home communications, which was the need to develop instruction in using Word in an optimal fashion. My final project illustrates the detail that was required to understand meeting this need.