Advanced Instructional Design students work on authentic instructional design projects individually or in small groups. Students engage in real-world projects and integrate knowledge and skills from previous courses, including instructional design process, principles, multimedia for instruction, learning theories, and assessment and evaluation.

Adding a real-world design experience means dealing with and balancing numerous additional variables, including project management, effective communication with clients, time management, application of professional knowledge and skills, and producing professional level products.
Students are equally responsible for technology use, design decisions, client requirements, and they are also required to produce original work for all aspects of each project.

Learning Outcomes

• Use the instructional design process to plan and develop learning solutions that solve real-world problems
• Conduct front-end analysis; specify measurable learning objectives; and plan, develop, and implement learning solutions in keeping with evidence-based design principles and strategies
• Define, exemplify, and apply key learning and instructional design concepts and procedures
• Complete needs assessments, context, learner, and content analyses; design courses and lessons; and evaluate learning and transfer
• Create a design blueprint (plan) for training or instruction
• Manage an instructional design project from beginning to end
• Demonstrate professional collaboration and communication skills with clients and subject-matter experts
  

GUM as High Performance Technology

IST626: Design Project Report