The Critical Thinking Assignments in this course build upon each other to help you complete the final Portfolio Project, an instructional design blueprint for a business or organization. In this step, you will research and select the business or organization you plan to use in your Portfolio Project.
Ideally, you will select a real business or organization because this will provide you with the opportunity to solve real-world problems and practice dealing with the complexities of organizations that grow and change in response to multifaceted issues. This step may require additional research to ensure that you can obtain all the information needed to complete the profile.
Once you have selected your business or organization, continue to use the Portfolio Project template linked on the Module 1 Assignments page to provide a profile based on the following dimensions:
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- Name of business/organization
- Business strategy (mission, values, and goals)
- Business drivers
- Organizational culture
- Environmental factors affecting the organization
After completing your profile, indicate why the instructional design model you selected in the Module 1 assignment aligns well with this organization. Support your ideas with research from two to three credible sources
Assignment 2
The Critical Thinking Assignments in this course build upon each other to help you complete the final Portfolio Project, an instructional design blueprint for a business or organization. In this step, you will complete a needs assessment for the business or organization you have selected and profiled.
Your needs assessment must include data collection measures and outcomes for the following four stages:
- Stage 1: What are the business/organization needs?
- Measure used:
- Outcome: (What is the forecasted ROI?)
- Stage 2: What are the performance needs?
- Measure used:
- Outcome: (What are the knowledge and skills needed for success in the business/organization? To what degree are they currently being met? )
- Stage 3: What are the learning needs?
- Measure used:
- Outcome: (What knowledge and skills need to be improved through instruction?)
- Stage 4: What are the learner needs?
- Measure used:
- Outcome: (Who are the learners? Approximate number?, multigenerational?, cultural?, traditional?, nontraditional?, etc.)
2-3 credible sources
Assignment 3
The Critical Thinking Assignments in this course build upon each other to help you complete the final Portfolio Project, an instructional design blueprint for a business or organization. Based on the profile you created in Module 2 and the needs assessment in Module 3, this week you will explore ways to integrate relevant theories into your design blueprint.
For each of the three learning theory topics that follow, brainstorm about instructional design considerations specific to your selected business/organization and the identified learning and learner needs from your needs assessment:
- Basic Theories of Learning: Behaviorism, Cognitivism, and Constructivism, and Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
- Malcolm Knowles’s Adult Learning (or Andragogy)
- Individual Characteristics of Learning: Motivation, Goals, Experience, Culture, and Generational Differences
Prior to outlining the design considerations for each of the three topics above, you will first need to describe your identified learners and their needs. This information should be taken from the results of your needs assessment assignment completed in Module 3.
2-3 credible sources.
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