"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
John F. Kennedy
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We are dedicated to designing and developing effective and engaging learning programs for all types of learners. We specifically pay attention to the age ranges in today’s workforce. It is so diverse. Our goal is to ensure that learning aligns with your organizational objectives, while also training participants to be prepared for organizations undergoing rapid change. Our programs are personal, engaging, flexible, thoughtful, and intelligent.
Affordable, excellent, practical, and online – my instructional design courses are $400 per 3 semester credits. Offered through Brandman University, this is an outstanding value. Courses can be taken to augment a degree program or potentially in lieu of other 3 semester credit classes. Participants seeking the certificate take a total of four courses (12 graduate-level professional development credits), with an optional fifth course. Courses may also be taken individually. Worth inquiring about, these courses will enable you to get your career on the fast track in the instructional design industry.
My work is designed to meet the increasing challenges for training within academic, corporate, non-profit, and healthcare organizations. Course participants will be able to design and produce learning activities and interactive multimedia materials, and to make effective use of instructional technology in training and curriculum development. Courses focus on exploring the theoretical, philosophical, cultural, technological, ethical, and political complexities surrounding learning and assessment in organizations. Participants will come away with the conceptual foundations and skills necessary to design more valid, reliable and appropriate ways of integrating learning goals and learning targets into a variety of quality design and evaluation methods.
Classes:
Certificate in Instructional Design Program
XLSU 9023 Introduction to Instructional Design
Prerequisites: Basic computer skills.
This class covers the essence of what it means to be an instructional designer. It describes the nature of the work, the core learning theories behind the work, industry best practices for doing the work, and begins to teach participants how they can become employed as instructional designers.
XLSU 9024 Instructional Design in Corporate Environments
Prerequisites: XLSU 9023 or permission from instructor.
While there are many venues in which instructional design can be practiced, the vast majority of jobs in this field involve working with or for corporate employers. To be successful, it is necessary to understand the culture of the company, identify key project members (e.g. stakeholders and subject matter experts), gain knowledge of the project’s learning and business objectives, assimilate relevant technologies that will be used, and discover the attributes of the people who will receive the instruction. Using case studies, this class walks participants through simulations of all these processes.
XLSU 9025 Instructional Design Technologies
Prerequisites: XLSU 9023 and XLSU 9024 or permission from instructor.
Instructional design makes heavy use of multiple software technologies for the design, development, and delivery of content. In this class, participants will be introduced a wide range of applications they will likely need to work in this field. Included are sections on programs for storyboarding the learning, creating interactive content, and working with common learning management systems that typically serve as the online interface between participants and the instruction being delivered.
XLSU 9026 Instructional Design Curriculum Development End-to-End
Prerequisites: XLSU 9023, XLSU 9024, & either XLSU 9025, XLSU 9026, or permission from instructor based on digital portfolio.
In this class, participants will be given an opportunity to apply all the instructional design knowledge and skills they have acquired to create a complete learning solution from end to end. The class instructor will serve as the project manager and each participant will be responsible for finding his or her own subject matter expert (SME) to work with. The deliverable at the end of this course can either be a portfolio-quality instructional design sample participants can use to secure work in the field or a completed learning project that will be used in a real-world setting. - See more at: http://www.brandman.edu/program/instructional-design-certificate#courses
XLSU 9027 Gamification and Instructional Design
Prerequisites: XLSU 9023, XLSU 9024, & either XLSU 9025, XLSU 9026, or permission from instructor based on digital portfolio.
Gamification is the application of game design techniques to non-game problems, such as organizational and social challenges. It is estimated that by 2015, more than 50 percent of organizations that manage innovation processes will gamify those processes." In view of this, education has to prepare students for this scenario. Effective games incorporate innovative and thoughtful learning processes, self determination, psychology, and technology. Games can be defined by having the following characteristics: fun, separate, uncertain, non-productive, governed by rules, and fictitious. According to Forbes (2013), organizations are applying gamification in the areas of marketing, human resources, productivity, training, health and wellness, innovation, and
customer engagement. This course strategically and intentionally teaches strategies to incorporate these thoughtfully innovative processes into the instructional design and curriculum development practice. After taking this course, participants will be able to effectively understand the gamification process and then pragmatically apply these structures to engage learners through active and engaging instructional design both digitally and
non-digitally. This course is set up as a game with game elements and game rewards.
Leadership and Organizational Development Courses
We work with you to develop and customize leadership courses and/or programs to meet your needs. We offer these courses online on your servers, through a desktop application with a combined web conferencing, or we can come to your location. We can certify the courses through a university as needed, or for a substantially lower cost we can offer you our certification.
Our programs offer timely, engaged, and substantive learning for your organization in a state of change. We utilize open textbooks, rental books, and downloadable journals as text-based materials for our courses. Our courses are theoretically supported by the best and most up-to-date research, and customized, pragmatic , and targeted to meet your organizational needs. We align your needs with our courses.
Independent Study Courses
Action Planning for Small Businesses
Applied Research and Statistics for Practitioners
Assessments in Organizations
Capacity Building for Teachers and Organizations
Change Leadership in Schools
Coaching skills for Teachers
Creative Leadership
Delegating Effectively in Classrooms
Effective communication for teachers
Emotional Intelligence for leaders
Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Goal Setting for Teams
High Performance Leadership Teams
Leadership and Diversity
Leading Virtual Teams for Online Schools
Organizational Change and Reform
Organizational Culture
Organizational Development
Organizational Evaluation
Organizational Systems
Performance Leadership
Effective Presentation Skills
Recruiting and Selecting Employees
Servant Leadership in Organizations
SMART Schools
Strategic Planning for School Leaders
Strengths Based Leadership
Talent Leadership in Organizations
Leadership and Time Management
Trust building in Organizations
You can also sign up for our Train the Trainer modules and then potentially join our cadre of consultants. We welcome you.
Train the Trainer Modules
Organizational Development for Teacher Leaders
Leadership Development for Teacher Leaders
Certificate in Instructional Design
Certificate in Executive Coaching
