What Does an Instructional Designer Do?
The definition of instructional designers in the glossary of the Society for Applied Learning Technology is: any computer-based curriculum developer and manager.
Teaching designer
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- Chinese name
- Teaching designer
- Foreign name
- Instructional designer
- Definition
- People working in instructional design
- Ability
- logical thinking
- Image thinking
- Animation of the course content
- The definition of instructional designers in the glossary of the Society for Applied Learning Technology is: any computer-based curriculum developer and manager.
- Cisco's definition of instructional designer in E-learning: Instructional designer is a person who is engaged in instructional design work. They can apply systematic methodology to design various learning events based on instructional theory. Specific content. From this definition, we can learn three aspects of instructional designers: first, instructional designers are engaged in instructional design work; secondly, instructional designers need to apply a systematic approach; thirdly, instructional designers are from theory to A practitioner of practice. [1]
Comprehension of instructional designers
- Instructional designers need access to knowledge from all walks of life, most of which are areas you haven't learned in depth. In the face of a very professional pile of text, data, and diagrams, instructional designers must be able to understand quickly, and sometimes even find and correct errors or contradictions. There is no doubt how to teach others if the teaching designers themselves do not understand the knowledge they are about to tell. If it takes a long time to understand, how to ensure that the project is completed on time?
Logical thinking
- The logical thinking ability is used to analyze and integrate data, and find out the logical relationship between various knowledge points. In many cases, the original materials of the course are cluttered and the logical relationship is chaotic. Instructional designers should be able to quickly understand the logical relationships between these original materials and select the knowledge points that are useful for the purpose of teaching.
- From the perspective of understanding knowledge points, the logical relationship between two knowledge points can be divided into three types: parallel, progressive, and related.
- Juxtaposition: One knowledge point has no dependency on another knowledge point, that is, you can understand the knowledge point of B without knowing the knowledge point of A. Then, the two knowledge points of A and B are parallel relationship.
- Progression: One knowledge point is the basis of another knowledge point. To understand B knowledge point, you must first understand A knowledge point. Then, B knowledge point is a progressive relationship to A knowledge point.
- Association: Association also belongs to a side-by-side relationship, but it is not a simple side-by-side relationship. Although two knowledge points A and B exist side by side, knowing A knowledge point is helpful to better understand B knowledge point. The B knowledge point helps to better understand the A knowledge point. Such two knowledge points A and B are related to each other.
- It is almost certain to say that the logical relationship between any two knowledge points is one of juxtaposition, progression, and association, and it can only be one, and it will not have several logical relationships at the same time.
- Then, for the knowledge points with various logical relationships, are there any differences in the structural organization of the course and in the explanation? Can you summarize some general skills and methods? This will be described later.
Teaching designer writing skills
- Although the writing skills of instructional designers do not have to reach the level of writers, they must be able to write sentences that are concise, smooth, logically clear, and not ambiguous.
Communication skills of instructional designers
- During the development of an e-learning project, instructional designers need to communicate with people in various links: communicate with customers and understand their needs; communicate with experts in the field of courses to discuss the choice of knowledge points, etc .; communicate with production staff, He communicates his ideas for designing scripts; communicates with project managers to report work progress and problems encountered in a timely manner; communicates with course testers and listens to their suggestions on course instructional design. Instructional designers usually also need to communicate with sales staff to tell them the highlights of course design so that they can sell courses.
- The above four abilities can be said that anyone should have, but it is especially important for instructional designers. If any of them is lacking, they cannot become a qualified instructional designer.
Teaching designer image thinking
- The biggest feature of the e-learning course is the use of animation, graphics, pictures and other multimedia elements in the form of the course content. These multimedia elements need to be accurately described by the teaching designer during the script design stage. To do this, Need to have good image thinking skills.
Teaching designer literary creation
- This ability is mainly used in the design of situational courses. We have already learned what a situational course is. Although everyone can make a story, how to make the story more motivate the students' interest and integrate it more closely with the course content will have to have a certain literary creative skills.
Instructional Designer Industry Status
- Teaching designers know more about the current status and development trends of some e-learning industries and the basic situation of their peers will help broaden their horizons and try to innovate.
Knowledge about teaching designers
- Including: Scrom, AICC standards, graphic design, creative advertising, use of flash animation tools, etc.
Careful and patient teaching designer
- Needless to say, as a literary worker, teaching designers are not careful enough. At the same time, you need to be patient, because many times you need to modify the document repeatedly based on customer feedback, even if you don't think you need to modify it. [2]