Instructional Design & E-Learning Development: From Beginner to Your First Course

Overview

One continuing example, a phishing-awareness course for new employees at a fictional company, runs through every lesson. You can apply every activity to your own topic.

Who it’s for

People with no instructional design experience who want to build their first online course.

Prerequisites: None.

What you’ll learn

Analyse learners and training needs, and write a course brief.
Write learning objectives, an outline and a storyboard.
Build a complete lesson, an interactive scenario and an assessment with a rubric.
Plan publishing, quality assurance and evaluation.

Curriculum

10 modules, 40 lessons

Each module has an introduction and outcomes, lessons, a practical output and a six-question test.

Final project

Guided ADDIE pages, an 8-criterion rubric, a completed sample project and a downloadable portfolio.

How you’ll learn

Every lesson: objective, explanation, worked example, activity with saved answers, common mistakes, recap and a knowledge check
Interactions including an ADDIE explorer, a branching scenario, a scenario builder and a quiz builder
Glossary of 92 terms, bookmarks, search and 9 Word templates

Assessment

54 test questions with an explanation for each, retakes and saved results.

Accessibility and narration

Diagrams have text descriptions. The animated logo stops when your device asks for reduced motion.

Optional browser-voice narration with word highlighting, saved position and a transcript.

Languages

English

Saving your progress

Progress, answers and narration position are saved in your own browser.

Independent course. No accreditation or external qualification is claimed.