The three-day Course on Training Design Certification Program is designed for workplace learning and performance (L&D) practitioners who see the need to refine or strengthen their competency in training design. It will cover all the key elements of the training design process, using the ADDIE (Analysis-Design-Development-Implementation-Evaluation) Model of Instructional Systems Development (ISD). Learning sessions will be highly interactive and practical. Participants will be provided opportunities to work in small groups to apply learning to develop immediately utilisable outputs following the building blocks approach.

PRE-REQUISITE

You're all set to take this program if you've completed Training Fundamentals. If not, simply include the course fee in your overall registration or become a PSTD member to enjoy free access to the Training Fundamentals self-paced course. Apply for membership at https://pstd.org/application​.

COURSE OBJECTIVE

At the end of the program, participants will be able to develop comprehensive training designs that are responsive to identified priority L&D needs of individuals and organizations and compliant with a Course Design Quality Checklist.

Specifically, participants in the three-day course will be able to:

• Explain the shift from traditional classroom training to an L&D perspective in addressing the learning needs of individuals and the business needs of organizations and its implications on the training design process.
• Apply key principles and conditions that support adult learning to the training design process
• Contextualise the design process in the broader Instructional Systems Development Framework
• Develop terminal and enabling learning objectives following a set of criteria using Bloom's Taxonomy of Objectives as a reference
• Formulate process/session objectives that are aligned with and supportive of the terminal and enabling objectives
• Develop a learning evaluation plan that adheres to the principle of "performance agreement"
• Determine and organize content areas and learning events using either task-centered, problem-centered or topic–centered structure •Apply a set of guidelines in selecting the most appropriate team composition and logistic support requirements to implement a training design
• Consolidate the elements of a training design in a coherent format using a Training Activity Plan Template
• Review a training design for completeness and coherence using a Course Design Quality Checklist

TARGET PARTICIPANTS

• Subject Matter Experts
• Line Trainers
• Managers and Supervisors
• Learning and Development team
• HRBPs

COURSE OUTLINE

Training and Development Perspectives

The module will provide the venue to discuss the shift from traditional classroom training to the L&D perspective in addressing the learning needs of individuals and the business needs of organisations. The adult learning process and key principles and conditions that support adult learning will be revisited in the context of L&D and the training design process.

Overview of Instructional Systems Development and the ADDIE Model

The module will introduce the ISD, a systems approach to analyzing, designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating training and instructional experiences that support L&D, and ADDIE - a model that covers all the salient elements of the design process.

Developing learning objectives and evaluation plan

The third module will allow participants to differentiate levels of workplace development objectives, and review the types and domains of learning objectives. Participants will develop learning objectives that meet the criteria for effective objective statements. The module will likewise cover learning-training evaluation, an element that flows naturally from an objective setting but is commonly neglected in the design process.