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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

November 29 - December 1, 2006
Disney's Coronado Springs Resort
Orlando, Florida
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3-Day Conference - $1295
(Group Discounts are available)
Hotel and Travel

These four certificate programs are just for you: the instructional designer.

Training Magazine Events' Instructional Design Institute (IDI) combines the intensive skill building of a three-day certificate program with the valuable networking of a conference. Our certificate programs, conducted by top industry experts, provide you with the theories, best practices, and applications you need to become (and remain!) a top performer.

By the end of the third day, you'll walk away with a certificate, enhance your professional know-how, and jump-start your career.

Choose your certificate from the programs below:

IDI 1 E-Learning Designer William Horton, Author, Designing Web-Based Training

Learn how to design e-learning that educates a wide range of learners more reliably and in less time and that can be produced with simple tools. Topics include:

Target e-learning precisely. Zoom in on high-priority enterprise goals. Set realistic expectations. Achieve the potential of e-learning and overcome its limitations.

Quickly design instruction. Set clear, achievable objectives. Streamline design without sacrificing effectiveness. Identify what must be taught and how to teach it. Sequence units of learning. Refine your design.

Accomplish learning strategies. Design e-learning to cover vast, complex, dynamic subjects, to overcome habits and instincts, to engineer better application of learning, and to foster independent learners. Leverage existing materials to reduce costs and development time.

Activate learners. Select learning activities to accomplish specific objectives. Transform passive reading, listening, and watching into active discovery and creation. Connect learning to life and work.

Assess learning. Write fair, challenging, legally-defensible test questions. Design tests to match your enterprise and educational goals. Give meaningful, encouraging feedback. Explore alternative ways to measure learning.

Select and use media wisely. Appropriately use text, graphics, sound, voice, music, animation, and video. Specify the media you need. Evaluate and guide the work of media specialists. Create simple media yourself.

This is a fast-paced, yet structured, workshop, heavy on examples and light on academic theory. It is brains-on rather than merely hands-on. Rather than operating a particular brand of software, you will engage concepts and procedures directly. You will examine and critique dozens of live real-world examples, view animated presentations of crucial concepts, discuss design approaches with fellow students, and practice applying your skills in realistic design activities.

This program is for instructional designers who must specify and craft e-learning, instructors moving from the classroom to e-learning, technical writers moving from online documentation to online learning, and managers who must direct the design and development of e-learning.

IDI 2 E-Learning with Flash Designer
Chris Florio, Professor Interactive Media, New England Institute of Art

Learn how to harness the power of Flash to quickly, easily, and economically add content and interactivity to your current e-learning program.

In this certificate, you will explore how to set-up a Flash-based Web site or application, how to integrate rich media into a Flash project, and how to optimize streaming Flash files for variable bandwidths. This program will take you from the very first steps in Flash up to the point where you are able to create rich e-learning websites and applications. Learn how to:

•Get comfortable with the Flash interface.
•Create e-learning with drawing, editing, text, and animation tools and techniques.
•Send information between flash and server files and use Flash content with PowerPoint.
•Integrate rich media with Flash, like images, soundtracks, and video.
•Optimize Flash interactivity for presentations and training by creating forms, managing multiple timelines, and tracking user input.
•Create fun graphic feedback with ActionScript.
•Make as Flash compatible as possible by optimizing, combining, and streaming Flash files.

This certificate program is designed for anyone who needs to create effective and inspiring e-learning with limited time, budget, and resources.

Prerequisites: For hands-on learning, attendees must bring a laptop computer to this workshop. No previous Flash experience is required.

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IDI 3 Rapid E-Learning Designer
Ray Jimenez, Author, Rapid E-Learning

Learn practical, innovative tactics to quickly and economically deliver e-learning that can improve performance.

This certificate program will help you redirect your training team's focus with techniques and technologies that can rapidly improve performance across an entire organization and create e-learning that responds better to business needs.

See real-world examples of Rapid E-Learning applied to sales and customer support, manufacturing, retail, leadership and management, software support, and compliance. You will learn to:

•Apply new practices and processes in rapid content development and delivery.
•Use Rapid E-learning models, templates, reusable tools, and expandable technologies.
•Speed up delivery with innovations in LMSs that include performance systems, virtual training, WIKIs, Blogs, assessments, mobile learning, RSS, Dynamic Instructional Design Process (DIDP), and new technologies.
•Align Rapid E-Learning to rapid organization changes and global delivery.
•Apply new thinking towards the roles of trainers, chief learning officers, and subject matter experts (SMEs)

This hands-on session is ideal for chief learning officers, training directors and managers, project managers, implementation leaders, instructional design managers and specialists, e-learning managers, and lead persons. Some exposure to the development of e-learning programs is helpful, but not required.

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IDI 4 Instructional Developer
Darryl Sink, Author, Course Developer: A Guide to Training Course Development

The Instructional Developer Workshop focuses on the practical aspects of developing training and educational programs that will get the results you need, while providing an opportunity to apply what you learn directly to a project of your own.

This workshop will help you focus on a business problem or opportunity your training program is facing and gives you the techniques and skills necessary to develop professional training while meeting the challenges of today's quality-driven business environment. You'll learn about:

•Needs Assessment/Analysis: Selecting data gathering techniques.
•Subject Matter Expert Analysis: Selecting and interviewing SMEs.
•Task Analysis: Analyzing task/content for structure and sequence.
•Specifying Learning Objectives: Writing performance-based objectives.
•Developing and Selecting Learning Activities and Materials: Using a lesson design procedure, using criteria for selecting existing materials, developing instructional strategies for four different content types, selecting media, writing objective-based presentations.
•Levels of Evaluation: Developing plans for transfer and payoff evaluation, including ROI.

This certificate is ideal for training managers and supervisors, instructional designers and developers, trainers, and content experts. Some exposure to the development of training programs is helpful, but not required.

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Do you do spend more time delivering training than designing it? Find out more about the Classroom Instructor Institute (CII), co-located with IDI, November 29 - December 1, 2006, in Orlando, Florida.

Team Discount

Bring your team and save 25%. Offer valid for 3 or more from the same company, registering at the same time. Fax your registration forms together to (888) 889-4662. Group discount questions please call (877) 445-2524.

Schedule (Wednesday-Friday)

8:30 AM - 4:30 PM	Certificate Programs
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Refreshment Break
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Lunch (included with program registration)
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Refreshment Break