Instructional Design

Trainers, Assessors, and Adult Educators need to have a sound understanding of instructional design. Instructional design, when done well, enhances a student’s journey through the course as well as graduate outcomes. Learning how to successfully design a course through instructional design models is an essential skill for Trainers, Assessors and Adult Educators.

E-Learning, blended or face to face, this course has all training methods presented. This course overviews common instructional design Models. In addition, we share our practical techniques to support high-quality training course development outcomes.

Importantly, all course participants receive a suite of invaluable templates and tools to enhance instructional design within the workplace.

Course or educational program development is a complex process that entails many facets. There are often many competing priorities and multiple learning objectives that need to be included. Instructional design is a process used to ensure that all aspects of the course are addressed in a systematic and logical manner.

A well planned instructional design process can provide several benefits including:

• Reduce budget expenditure

• Enhance efficient learning

• Provide clarity to the student cohort

• Methodically address adult learning principles

• Produce high quality learning resources and course content

• Assists to customize the training delivery

• Ensures the training is informed by stakeholder input

Every adult education practitioner should maintain well developed instructional design skills and knowledge. This training course is developed from two decades of instructional design experience including training room delivery, eLearning delivery and blended delivery.

Becoming a Vocational Instructor

Have you recently become a Trainer, Assessor, or Adult Educator? Or are you considering taking the plunge? If so, this course will help you survive your first day, week, and semester!

This course will assist you to transition from a vocational (industry) expert to a valuable Trainer, Assessor and Adult Educator.

To be a successful Trainer, Assessor, or Adult Educator you will need to have a growth mindset. A growth mindset is necessary to develop the skills and knowledge to be an effective Trainer, Assessor, and Adult Educator. This course can support you to improve your training, assessment, and adult education skills.

The course content includes:

• YouTube-style instructional videos

• A free electronic book (also available via Amazon)

• Activity quizzes

• Access to the podcast 'Education Transformation'

• Best practice recording templates

• Optional facilitator support (no extra cost)

• Access is mobile and tablet friendly.

• Completely self-paced.

Becoming a Trainer, Assessor, or Adult Educator does take time and commitment. With our support, you can assist students to develop the skills, knowledge, and attitudes to be successful in their chosen field.

Welcome to the world of the adult educator!

High-Performance Instructing

Are you ready to become an expert Adult Educator, Trainer, and Assessor? If you have been practicing as a Trainer, Assessor, or Adult Educator for some time, perhaps now is a good time to hone your skills further so that you can create a learning environment that enhances your student’s success.

This course will affirm some of your existing skills and knowledge while offering practical techniques to enhance teaching excellence within your professional practice. The course content will also support academic leadership responsibilities within the workplace.

A High-performance Instructor will exhibit the following qualities:

• Adaptable

• Dependable

• Able to conduct the same training session to meet the diverse needs of differing cohorts (student groups)

• Professionally inquisitive

• Advanced instructor knowledge

• Able to lead educational teams

• Proactive strategic planner

• Demonstrates empathy for the stakeholders

• Consistently produces a high-performance learning culture where the cohort is the focus.

Can you just imagine the career opportunities this course can open up? With the support of this course, you can become a high-performance Trainer, Assessor or Adult Educator.

Some of the practical outcomes will include:

• Student knowledge retention strategies

• 46 teaching tips and techniques

• How to facilitate co-teaching sessions

• The importance of work stations and flipping the classroom techniques

• Leadership functions of senior faculty

• How to take the lead within Peer to Peer Professional Programs

• Academic leadership self-assessment tool.

Education Improvement Plans

Assess and Accelerate Your Institution!

An Education Improvement Plan reviews current processes, policies, and historical records to help shape the future of the educational institution. Alternatively, an Education Improvement Plan can also be developed to support an individual education program. The plan will produce a detailed evaluation of the current strengths of the institution or educational program. Importantly, the plan will present a road map to strengthen identified areas of improvement. It is not uncommon for an Education Improvement Plan to have a life span of two to three years.

The course content includes:

• Technical Manual

• Education Improvement Plan Reporting Template

• Project Management Action Plan Template

• Assessing Business Capabilities Template

• Academic Management Baseline Survey

• Instructor Baseline Survey

• Stakeholder Engagement Template

• Monitoring Report Template

• A professional Certificate of Completion (for participants that complete the assessed tasks)

• TWO complimentary webinar coaching sessions

• Course facilitator email support.

There is no better time to commence the strategic development of an Education Improvement Plan for your institution!

Equipping Educational Leaders

Education leadership supporting dynamic programme growth!

This course presents the skills and knowledge to develop an outstanding academic leadership and management environment within an adult education institution. When the principles presented are implemented consistently prospects for programme growth will be maximised.

The course is ideal for those individuals involved with educational leadership roles or those individuals that aspire to such roles.

Some of the practical outcomes will include:

• How to develop team formation

• On-boarding new staff

• Develop a business continuity plan

• How to implement a network of professional Communities of Practice - build your teams capacity from within

• Succession planning

• How to develop a long-term teaching timetable

• Decision making approaches

• Academic team maintenance

• Developing a faculty training needs analysis (academic programme example provided)

• How to implement and measure the success of a Peer to Peer Programme - build your teams capacity from within

• Dare to delegate

• Addressing academic team dynamics.

• And much more!

The course content includes:

• Podcasts from 'Education Transformation'

• YouTube style instructional videos

• Webcast

• FREE electronic book

• Several industry best practice recording templates

• Course content transfers into adult education institutions

• Access is mobile, and tablet friendly.

The course content demonstrates current industry best practices developed from successful real-world experience with a global perspective.

Develop Your Teaching Team

Facilitate professional teaching observations and the individual capacity development of team members!

This course has been developed from current industry best practice. Topics include:

• How to undertake constructive teaching observations to enrich and develop the teaching capacity within your faculty team.

• How to facilitate, document, implement and monitor annual capacity development plans and interviews to support the professional development of individuals within your team.

Both topics can offer tangible real world advantages to your organisation when professionally implemented. The course content offers the following:

• Clearly worded text to contextualize the learning journey

• Pathway to embed theoretical knowledge into your workplace

• Practical teaching observation template (free to download and adapt to your workplace)

• Staff development planning template (free to download and adapt to your workplace)

• Video content.

This course is well suited to academic programme managers, team leaders and those faculty members aspiring to such roles.

Some of the practical outcomes will include:

• Understanding the importance of professional teaching observations

• Understanding how to facilitate a professional teaching observation

• The importance of media files

• Support to facilitate professional teaching observations within your institution or team

• The purpose of faculty development plans

• How to assess and accelerate your team members via practical support

• Support to implement capacity development planning sessions

• Guidance on how to monitor the progress of your institution or team

The course is structured in a practical way so the content can readily transfer into any educational institution.

Create a Quality Management System

Establish the foundations of a robust Quality Management System (QMS) to support your training organisation.

This course has been developed to enable a training organisation to establish a successful Quality Management System to address their regulatory obligations. The course approach enables you to proactively measure and monitor their performance via the Quality Management System.

A robust QMS will assist a training provider in the following ways:

• Collects evidence to support informed decision making

• Assists to inform the future vision of the organisation

• Establishes thresholds of action

• Documents continual improvement

• Educates all staff members about the importance of meeting of exceeding the responsibilities defined by the national regulator.

• Establishes workplace standards

• Prevents costly mistakes

• Manages risk throughout the students journey.

Some of the benefits include:

• Benchmarking your current practices against a proven QMS system.

• Removing that soul destroying feeling of placing the quality/compliance obligations upon one person

• Download an 'Internal Audit tool template'

• Reach out for QMS webinar support (optional)

• Download a 'Risk Register Template'

• Download a 'Project Management Action Plan'

• Download a 'Training staff skills matrix recording Tool'

• Download a 'Course development completion template'

• Adapt the course content to establish a unified vision

• Use our resources to educate your team.

Facilitate a Peer to Peer Program

Peer reviews are consistently implemented throughout many world-wide educational institutions. It is important to note that a peer is at an equal level to the person being reviewed. A peer review only takes place to reflect upon the positive benefits of the training experience. This short course will define the benefits of implementing a peer-based professional programme.

Within the course you will access:

• Video lecture defining the purpose and benefits

• Peer to peer recording template

• Guidelines on how to implement the program

• Podcast from 'Education Transformation'

There are a number of benefits to implementing this peer-based professional program. Benefits to the reviewer can include:

• As the reviewer you request the instructor/educator you would like to observe

• The reviewer experiences a different approach to teaching

• The reviewer observes how the students respond

• The reviewer completes a written record of the two most important benefits of being in the classroom

• The reviewer can incorporate the lessons learned into their teaching practice.

Benefits to the Instructor can include:

• Receive written feedback on two positive points the reviewer gained from your classroom

• Gain another perspective on your students

• The educator will feel the benefit of helping to enrich another educator’s teaching practice

• All instructors enrich one another and the institute to excel from within.

Podcast Education Transformation

Learn more about our FREE podcast to support global Adult Education and Training best practices.

Now heard in over 60+ countries!

Education Transformation is a fortnightly podcast that focuses on high-performance adult educator practice, educational leadership, and education within international development. The episodes are broad and varied and look at a wide range of adult education practices along with guest speakers to enrich the programme’s discussions.

This is a podcast for new and experienced adult educators as well as educational managers. This podcast provides a unique Australian and international perspective on adult education.

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