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Instructional Design Philosophy
Our Instructional Design Model is based primarily on the concepts of performance-oriented instruction, mastery and the sequencing of instructional activities and strategies. The model draws heavily from adult learning principles that emphasize learner initiative, self-management and experiential learning. The design of each SkillSoft course starts with the definition of user-focused performance objectives and then proceeds to the selection and implementation of instructional strategies and learning activities appropriate for those objectives. Frequent practice questions or exercises along with assessments measure users' achievement of those objectives. This robust, yet flexible, design methodology creates an instructionally sound framework for the design and development of highly interactive, engaging, and instructionally effective courses—regardless of the content focus or level of learning.
Our Instructional Design Model is intended to meet the challenge of creating effective and engaging instruction that’s easily deployed on our corporate customers' global computer networks. Our design, development and quality assurance standards and processes are all geared toward ensuring that each course meets our expectations for the best instruction possible.
Each course in our library includes:- Learning outcomes specified by performance goals and objectives;
- Content and learning activities based on specified objectives;
- Assessment based on the knowledge and skills specified in the objectives;
- Options to take assessments in either pre- or post-test mode;
- Instructional strategies and multimedia elements tailored to the specific course content;
- Instructional strategies appropriate for the content and learning level, such as examples, behavior modeling, guided practice, and simulations; and Levels of learning appropriate for the content and the target audience.
- Friendly, intuitive graphical user interface;
- Course structure and interface that supports self-paced, user-controlled instruction;
- Unlimited access to instruction and mastery assessments;
- Standardized templates to create unified and predictable functionality;
- Variety of presentation, practice and assessment templates supporting high levels of user interactivity and engagement; and
- Standardized, yet flexible, flow of instruction.
Starting from this set of common elements and attributes, our courses then include the instructional strategies most suitable for the content and specified objectives. For instance, the approach to teaching communication skills is different from the approach to teaching finance or accounting skills and the strategies used to teach these two business content areas differ from those used to teach computer and software skills.
