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Quick Look Course Summary:Design and Develop Effective Learning Material Training (3 days)
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Length: 3 day(s)
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Price (at your venue): 1 Person R 14,997 EX VAT 3 Person R 11,205 EX VAT 10 Person R 8,120 EX VAT
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Certification Type:Non-Accredited
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Locations & Venues: Off-site or in-house. We train in all major city centres throughout South Africa.
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Design and Develop Effective Learning Material Training (3 days)
Your trainers and subject experts produce learning material, facilitator guides and assessments that are clear, consistent and ready to use.
Most organisations already hold the knowledge their people need – it sits with subject experts, supervisors and long-serving staff. The hard part is turning it into material that another trainer can deliver and a learner can follow. Slides without a facilitator guide, manuals with no activities and tests that do not match the content waste training days and give uneven results. Learning material development is a skill in its own right, and this course teaches it step by step.
Over three practical days, delegates plan a development project from the brief, profile the target audience and identify skills gaps. They then write learning activities in a logical sequence, using adult learning principles and plain language, and produce a facilitator guide that someone else could pick up and run. Day three covers designing assessment activities and assessment guides that match the outcomes, and planning a pilot to test and improve the material before roll-out.
Delegates work on a topic from their own workplace, so they leave with a draft module, a facilitator guide outline and an assessment they can finish and use. The course suits in-house trainers, learning and development teams and anyone preparing material for internal programmes or learnerships.
Why this course
For your organisation
- Training material that any competent facilitator can deliver consistently
- Less dependence on a single trainer or subject expert
- Assessments that test the outcomes the business actually needs
- Material that is piloted and improved before full roll-out
- Development projects that stay on budget and on time
For your delegates
- A step-by-step method from development brief to finished module
- Templates for audience profiles, development plans and facilitator guides
- Practice writing activities and assessments on your own topic
- Confidence to evaluate and improve existing material
What delegates will be able to do
- Analyse a development brief and agree scope, outcomes and resources with the designer or sponsor
- Draw up a development plan covering time, budget, suppliers and technical requirements
- Profile the target audience and run a basic skills gap audit
- Sequence learning activities and write material that follows adult learning principles
- Write in clear, plain language pitched at the learners' level
- Produce a facilitator guide with timings, instructions, resources and common learner difficulties
- Design assessment activities and assessment guides that match the learning outcomes
- Plan and run a pilot, evaluate the results and improve the material
Who should attend
In-house trainers and facilitators, learning and development practitioners, instructional designers, HR practitioners, assessors and moderators who review training material, and subject matter experts who have been asked to turn what they know into a training programme.
Course outline
Day 1 – Planning the project and knowing your learners
From brief to development plan
- Reading a design brief: purpose, outcomes, audience and constraints
- Clarifying and agreeing the brief with the designer or sponsor
- Building a development plan: tasks, timelines, budget and sign-offs
- Sourcing and evaluating existing resources before writing anything new
- Working with suppliers, graphic designers and support services
- Checking the technology and IT needs of the delivery method
Profiling the target audience
- What a target audience profile is and why it shapes every design decision
- Gathering information on learners' roles, experience, language and literacy
- Learning preferences and barriers to learning
- Writing up the target audience profile
Running a skills gap audit
- Comparing required competence with current competence
- Simple audit methods: interviews, questionnaires, observation and records
- Prioritising the gaps the material must close
- Reporting the profile and the gaps to the sponsor
Day 2 – Writing the learning material
Adult learning principles in practice
- How adults learn at work: relevance, experience and practice
- Moving learners from knowledge to skill to application
- Choosing an activity for each outcome: case studies, role-plays, exercises and demonstrations
- Designing for classroom, online and blended delivery
Sequencing and writing activities
- Putting activities in a logical order
- Writing clear instructions for learners
- Plain language, readability and inclusive examples
- Visual layout, headings and white space
- Keeping material concise and within budget
The facilitator guide
- Background information the facilitator needs
- Outcomes, timings and the structure of each session
- Step-by-step facilitation notes and resource lists
- Flagging common learner difficulties and how to handle them
- Linking each session to the assessment arrangements
Workshop: drafting your own module
- Drafting a learner workbook section on your own topic
- Peer review against a material quality checklist
- Facilitator feedback and revision
Day 3 – Assessment, piloting and evaluation
Principles of assessment design
- Validity, reliability, fairness and practicability
- Matching the assessment method to the type of outcome
- Formative and summative assessment
- Avoiding common design errors
Designing assessment activities and guides
- Writing knowledge questions, practical tasks and workplace assignments
- Building marking memoranda, checklists and rubrics
- Writing the assessment guide for assessors and learners
- Checking an assessment design against the outcomes
Piloting the material
- Choosing a pilot group and setting up the pilot
- Collecting feedback from learners, facilitators and assessors
- Quality checks before roll-out
Evaluating and improving
- Analysing pilot results for strengths and weaknesses
- Making and recording improvements
- Version control for learning material
- Personal action plan and course evaluation
How it is delivered
Three days, 08:30-16:00. In person at your offices anywhere in South Africa, at a BOTI venue, or live online. One delegate or a group of up to 20; delegates bring a topic from their own workplace to develop during the course. Workbook, templates and checklists included. We deliver it at your offices in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town and anywhere else in South Africa, at a BOTI venue in Johannesburg, or live online for teams in different places.
What our clients say
“BOTi has consistently and expertly delivered quality training services in respect of our Soft Skills requirements. We feel confident in recommending BOTI as a training services provider par excellence.”
“The course was efficiently scheduled and planned around our timetable. We were impressed by both the quality of training and the Facilitators.”
“We have been very impressed with their service and rollout of the training.”
Frequently asked questions
Can you run this course at our offices?
Yes. We train at client premises anywhere in South Africa, and can also host the course at a BOTI venue or deliver it live online.
How many people can attend?
From one delegate to groups of about 20. Smaller groups get more individual feedback on their draft material.
Is it accredited?
No – it is a non-accredited short course and delegates receive a BOTI certificate of attendance. If you need a credit-bearing route, ask us about BOTI's QCTO skills programmes in learning and development.
Can we develop material on our own topics during the course?
Yes. Delegates bring a real topic and the exercises on days two and three are built around it. A group from one organisation can work on the same programme together.
Does it cover e-learning?
It covers how design choices change for online and blended delivery. It does not teach a specific e-learning authoring tool.
Is there a course on delivering the material?
Yes. Train the Trainer (Facilitator Training) prepares people to deliver and evaluate training, and the Assessor Skills course covers conducting assessments.