Instructional Design Progression

Karen Baranich organized the Instructional Design progression, which will take place on Wednesday morning from 8:30 – 10:00am at this year's conference. The progression will consist of several mini-sessions (presentation-discussion). The mini-sessions will last approximately 20 minutes. Participants will rotate among the presenters of their preference. A big thank you to Karen for organizing the progression!

Topics

Title: A Look at Storyboards
Presenter: Frances Wirth
Description: Storyboards play a central role in the courseware development process. We'll discuss how storyboards are used, what elements an effective storyboard should contain, and why they are so important. We'll also take a look at a new tool for developing storyboards.

Frances Wirth is an independent instructional designer and principal of whizID Instructional Design, specializing in the design and development of e-learning courseware. She is a Senior Member of STC, and received the Distinguished Chapter Service Award for her contributions as Training Manager for the STCCarolina Chapter. You can contact Frances at wirth@peoplepc.com

Title: Measuring Return on Investment of Training
Presenter: Cindy Currie
Description: Many myths exist around measuring the contribution of training and development programs to a company's bottom line --- the payback. This session will examine some of these myths and dispel them. We'll also look at some of the key issues and barriers to successful evaluation of training programs and a process that can be used to measure training impact.

Cindy Currie is a Senior Performance Consultant with Hewlett Packard Company, where she consults to both internal clients and external customers on many aspects of human and organizational performance. She is an STC Associate Fellow and the current Manager of the STC's International Technical Publications Competition (ITPC).

You can contact Cindy at cynthia.currie@hp.com.

Title: Conducting the Job Task Analysis, or "Stickie Bingo" for Better Course Design
Presenter: Jane Smith
Description: Participants will experience the ease of conducting a job task analysis for forming the basis of good course design as we play "stickie bingo." This visual method makes quick work of a once tedious task..

Jane Smith has been an instructional designer for over 18 years and has experience developing training for classroom, audio, CBT, IMT, WBT, and e-Learning. In addition, she has facilitated classes on instructional design. She is an independent consultant, providing course design, mentoring, project management, and workshops and seminars through her company JEM Communications, LLC. Jane also recently assumed the Manager position of the Instructional Design and Learning SIG. You can contact Jane at jemcomm@sedona.net.

Title: Technical Writing and Instructional Design Techniques
Presenter: Jackie Damrau
Description: Technical communicators and instructional designers use similar techniques in producing written documents. This paper discusses how the Perot Systems Instructional Design team creates its documentation in a similar manner as technical communicators. We start by discussing the use of the ADDIE model for developing documentation; 2) explaining how we implement our Word and PowerPoint style guides with a brief mention about our client-driven Training Engagement Methodology; and 3) ensuring copyrights are respected. The subject matter experts that we support as technical communicators and instructional designers sometimes view us as the documentation police because we constantly question the data and quotations.

Jackie Damrau is a senior STC member and the incoming STC Lone Star Chapter President. She has over 20 years technical writing and 6 years instructional design experience. Jackie enjoys going to the movies and reading classic literature or Irish/Scottish/English historical and time-travel romance novels. You can contact Jackie at Jackie.Damrau@ps.net.

Title: Learning or Browsing: Should Learners Control the Sequence of eLearning?
Presenter: Mike Tillmans
Description: What is your elearning strategy: "Turn'm loose" or "Control all the choices" or somewhere in between? If you are like most other IDs, its a conflict. ID theory tells us there are optimal learning sequences. Web practice shows that learners demand control. Join this discussion to examine how a student's level of prior knowledge and self-organizing skills can be used to keep everyone happy and elearning.

Mike Tillmans has extensive project management, training development and process analysis experience in business and education. His areas of interest include curriculum planning, job/task analysis, group facilitation, process mapping, and training materials development and evaluation.

You can contact Mike at EyeDee@aol.com

Title: E-Learning or Classroom Training: Which One is Right for Your Organization?
Presenter: Sylvia Miller
Description: It's no simple decision to choose between e-learning and traditional classroom delivery of training. So many factors, only one of which is the cost difference. This session provides a "decision pak" with references, comparison charts, and a Decision Aid scoring device to help you decide which delivery method best fits your current training need.

You can contact Sylvia at sylviamiller@woh.rr.com