E-Learning Instructional Design Certificate

Skills in e-learning are essential to the talent development field because they enable organizations to deliver scalable, cost-effective, and flexible learning experiences to a diverse workforce, meeting rapidly changing business needs. E-learning design and technology skills allow talent development professionals to design personalized, engaging programs that can be accessed anytime and anywhere, supporting continuous learning, onboarding, compliance, performance support, and job-specific training.

• Apply learning theories and models, the steps of ADDIE, and the needs assessment process to the development of e-learning modules and courses.

• Identify behavioral outcomes and create learning objectives for e-learning modules and courses.

• Apply the elements of the course design process to design, develop, and curate content for e-learning modules and courses.

• Identify design thinking and rapid prototyping techniques for e-learning modules and courses.

• Evaluate the impact of your e-learning modules and courses, as well as your project and development processes, to foster continuous improvement.

• Determine your level of future readiness in e-learning instructional design, and develop a plan for continued learning.

• Explore ways to present, structure, and sequence e-learning content that is learner-centric, engaging, and impactful.

• Use design thinking and rapid prototyping to minimize rework and accelerate your e-learning project.

• Gain access to a collection of more than 20 templates and tools you can use in designing online courses immediately on the job.

• Advance your instructional design career with an industry-recognized ATD certificate, continuing education credits, and an ATD digital badge to share with your networks.

Practitioners new to e-learning design and development and those who specialize in this area in their professional role will benefit from this course. Those who want to brush up on the latest e-learning design techniques, as well as instructional designers, curriculum builders, learning managers, content developers, and courseware producers will also benefit. You do not have to be an instructional designer to gain value from this program.

If you are designing corporate training courses for face-to-face training in the classroom or across many learning formats and educational settings, consider our foundational Instructional Design Certificate instead. If you are designing online learning experiences for a virtual classroom, such as Webex, Zoom, Adobe Connect, or Microsoft Teams, consider the Virtual Instructional Design Certificate.

This e-learning certificate is industry-recognized and demonstrates expertise in applying effective instructional design models and e-learning strategies, which are core skills sought by employers in talent development and learning and development roles. The program introduces leading practices in e-learning design, such as design thinking and rapid prototyping, and shows you how to adapt instructional design theories to online education.

The e-learning instructional design certificate program is tailored to the unique needs of professionals who design self-paced e-learning. ATD offers additional instructional design courses for the field:

• Instructional Design Certificate is a foundational course for professionals who design across learning modalities.

• Virtual Instructional Design Certificate is for professionals looking to build instructional design skills for creating instructor-led online courses hosted in the virtual classroom.

• AI for Instructional Design Workshop shows instructional designers how they can harness the power of AI to design and develop content for in-person and online learning experiences.

Contact ATD’s Enterprise Solutions team for information about bringing this e-learning design course to your organization, either in person or virtually. An ATD representative can assist with scheduling, advise on which instructional design course aligns with your requirements, present facilitator options relevant to your industry and goals, and discuss possibilities for customizing the content to your team’s needs.

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• Adult Learning Theories, Learning Models, & Memory

• Human Performance Improvement

• Instructional Design Models

• The ADDIE Model

• Definition and Value of a Needs Assessment

• Six Steps of a Needs Assessment

• Three Levels of Needs Assessment

• Data Collection Techniques

• How Design Thinking Can Improve Instructional Design

• Applying Design Thinking to Instructional Design

• Rapid Methodologies and Prototyping

• Moving to Implementing and Evaluating

• Defining Outcomes and Objectives

• Behavioral Outcomes

• Learning Objectives

• Techniques for Writing Learning Objectives

• Instructional Modality Options

• Basic Course Design

• Course Map Plan and Modules

• What Are Instructional Methods?

• Instructional Methods Options and Considerations

• Selecting Delivery Media and Technology

• Curation and Creation of Content

• Using SMEs in Instructional Design

• The Two Major Categories of Learning

• Levels of Learning Considerations

• Techniques for Structuring Content

• Considerations for Structuring Content

• Designing Learning Materials With the Learner in Mind

• Techniques for Developing E-Learning Materials

• A Closer Look at Design

• Designing Materials to Assess Learning

• Evaluating Talent Development Solutions

• Evaluation Methodologies

• Creating an Evaluation Plan