7 Habits for Highly Effective People
by Stephen Covey
This year I started to work for a start up company with the mission of providing educational services to children and young people from age 13 to 19. I had the role of Senior Instructional Designer overseeing the department, where I created academic and soft skills courses.
This project is related to a course that was already provided as content from the Covey Institute (the start-up had a license for it) and I needed to organize the content into a digital course on the eLearning platform called LearnWorlds. I had to update the content and align it with company’s brand identity, make it engaging and interactive. This project took around 4 weeks in total.
Role:
Year:
2022
Instructional Designer
Creating the existent material in a new platform in a more engaging format
Brief:
Tools:
Notion, Learnworlds, Creative Cloud Premier Pro
Skills:
Instructional Design, E-learning Development
Scoping and instructional design.
To begin the instructional design process, I created a scoping document. This meant understanding who the target audience was, what current resources were available, and what the company’s expectations were for the eLearning course.
I took some time to read through the existing face to face classroom written documents and any supporting documents and from here pulled together detail of topics, sub-topics, learning outcomes and expected timescales. Once signed that was completed, I was able to then progress on to creating a storyboard for the content. This largely involved pulling content over from the provided document, updating it and providing asynchronous activities.
The activities I included ranged from scenario-based activities, to help anchor the learning and put it into context, to reflective exercises that encouraged the learner to reflect on their current practice. Regarding evaluations, learners are repeatedly challenged on their perception and understanding of the subject matter at regular intervals throughout eLearning.
For the project management for this course, I used ADDIE methodology and the learning design theory that the company was using and it’s their patent: Engage, Learn, Practice, Master.
This means that each subtopic has 4 sections focusing on a hook activity that is either based on an analogy or reflection to create a connection with the participant, then dive into the theoretical section and then the last two sections focus on two different levels of difficulty of practical activities that included quizzes, reflection questions, vision boards, projects.
Design and Development
Once the scoping was completed, I started to incorporate content into the eLearning platform and design the look and feel of the course, through features available.
I also took the videos offered by the institute and edited them where necessary, while uploading materials that were further necessary for the study.
This platform also allowed to have a layout page of the course that needed to be designed in tone with the message of the course and the company’s brand colors.
