Instructional Design Solutions
Whether you need an instructional designer to create training for a software implementation, a 6 month cohort style leadership development program, or legal compliance eLearning, we have the instructional design solution you need for your custom learning content project.
What Can an Instructional Design Consultant Do?
Instructional Designers can perform a variety of services for your company. These include:
Analysis:
- Training Needs Analysis: Identify gaps in skills and knowledge to determine the training needs of your organization.
- Learner Analysis: Assess the characteristics and learning preferences of your target audience to tailor the training effectively.
- Task Analysis: Break down complex tasks into smaller, manageable steps to create clear and effective instructional content.
- Content Analysis: Evaluate existing content to determine its relevance, accuracy, and alignment with learning objectives.
- Performance Analysis: Assess employee performance to identify areas for improvement and align training with performance goals.
- Context Analysis: Understand the environment in which the training will be delivered, including technological, physical, and cultural factors.
- Competency Analysis: Define the skills, knowledge, and abilities required for specific roles and design training to develop these competencies.
Design:
- Conceptual Maps: Visual representations that outline the relationships between different concepts and ideas in the course content.
- High Level Design: Documents: Provides an overview of the course structure, including objectives, target audience, instructional strategies, and assessment methods.
- Content Outlines: Lists the main topics and subtopics that will be covered in the course, organized in a logical sequence.
- Detailed Design Documents: Offers an in-depth description of each module or lesson, including learning objectives, content, activities, assessments, and multimedia elements.
- Storyboards: Visual representations of the course content, including text, images, interactions, and navigation paths for each screen or slide.
- Interaction Design: Plans for interactive elements like quizzes, simulations, drag-and-drop activities, and branching scenarios.
- Accessibility Design: Design elements and guidelines to ensure the course is accessible to all learners, including those with disabilities.
- Assessment Design: Plans for formative and summative assessments, including quizzes, tests, and performance tasks.
Development:
- eLearning: Develop interactive online courses that learners can access at their own pace.
- Classroom Training: Design and deliver traditional instructor-led training sessions, either in-person or virtually.
- Blended Learning: Combine eLearning and classroom training to create a hybrid approach that maximizes the benefits of both methods.
- Microlearning: Create short, focused learning modules that address specific topics or skills.
- Gamification: Integrate game elements into training to increase engagement and motivation.
- Mobile Learning: Develop training content optimized for mobile devices, allowing learners to access materials on the go.
- Video-Based Training: Produce instructional videos that demonstrate skills and concepts in a visual and engaging way.
- Webinars and Virtual Classrooms: Develop live, online training sessions that allow for real-time interaction between instructors and learners.
- Social Learning: Develop collaborative learning through social media platforms, discussion forums, and group projects.
- Simulations and Role-Playing: Create realistic scenarios that allow learners to practice skills in a controlled environment.
- Job Aids and Performance Support Tools: Develop quick-reference materials and tools that help learners apply skills on the job.
- Interactive PDFs and Digital Workbooks: Create engaging digital documents that include interactive elements like quizzes and multimedia.
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5 Reasons to Hire an Instructional Design Consultant
Interviewing and Selecting an Instructional Design Consultant:
Interviewing and selecting an instructional design consultant for your project is different than hiring a full-time employee. Our industry-expert relationship managers can help you navigate this process. We have great advice on how to adjust your hiring process. Our relationship managers will do all the work finding out your requirements and vetting candidates. This saves you time because you only need to speak to one hand-selected consultant for each opening. In addition, we’ve collected interview questions over our many years working with hiring managers like you.
10 Interview Questions to Ask an Instructional Design Consultant
Why Choose an Instructional Design Consultant over an Employee?
Many companies are now hiring instructional design contractors to expand their teams for projects beyond the usual daily tasks. These seasoned professionals bring specialized expertise to each project, making them invaluable for scaling your team. They integrate smoothly and leave just as easily, giving you precise control over costs. Plus, instructional design contractors require minimal leadership efforts, freeing you from time-consuming responsibilities like coaching sessions.
Why Work with TrainingPros?
We are a certified woman-owned, award-winning contract staffing company specializing in learning and development consultants. Our differentiators include:
- We are practitioners. You will never have to speak to a salesperson.
- We plant a tree for every consultant we put to work. We’ve planted thousands of trees to date.
- We are nationwide. We can help your internal clients anywhere in the US.
- We are highly specialized in training and eLearning consultants. We work with these consultants every day.
- We will do the vetting for you. You won’t receive a stack of resumes to sort through.
- Our Relationship Managers have real-world experience leading instructional design projects. We can help you navigate large instructional design projects more easily.
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