Instructional Design Document 300x

The MicroMasters from 100x to 400x are interconnected.  In 300x, more elements, such as digital content and Digital Media Checklists are added to the Instructional Design Document. 

The Instructional Design Document is a guiding blueprint for key individuals and collaborators to grasp the course overview. Click to view the full PDF version here.

As society is gearing up for the post-pandemic world, many organizations have adopted the hybrid working model. Wide Field (a fictional company) is one such organization, and they learned that many of Wide Field's employees are experiencing a hard time keeping up their work and life balance. To increase the organizational performance goal, the Learning and Development (L&D) team needs to support the employees to motivate themselves by clarifying the goals that benefit them and the company.

As Wide Field adopted the hybrid working model after the pandemic years, they conducted a survey and received employee feedback on this model. One of the highlights showed that many employees are experiencing a hard time keeping up their work-life balance. Their L&D team investigated the root cause of the issue since the well-being of employers is one of their top priorities to make the hybrid model sustainable for the long term. The root cause appeared to have links to coping skills and motivation. The organization tried webinars about coping skills; however, intrinsic motivation was hard to reach solely through webinars. To increase the organizational performance goal, the L&D team needs to support the employees to motivate themselves. The L&D team is also responsible for creating a skill inventory of employees and providing training for self-motivated people to fill skill gaps in the current and future years in the organization. They want to learn how to structure personalized development plans that benefit employees and the organization. The resulting data on employee motivation and goals will be a foundation for creating personalized development and organizational skill pool plans.

Not all individuals know their purpose and concrete goals for the long term. Most individuals have wishful thinking, but when taking action, they often experience being unable to hold onto their wishes. Some processes are required to tap into the learner's intrinsic motivation and turn it into concrete goals. However, not everyone is familiar with the process. This online course navigates each learner through reflective activities to gain clarity on goals that are unique to each individual.

The course is structured to set the end goal first. It is broken down into terminal learning objectives that are further narrowed into more specific enabling objectives assigned to each module. They are supported by assessments and activities infused with digital content to promote learner engagement. The objectives, assessments, and activities are interconnected with one another.

All learning objectives adapt the Bloom's taxonomy. The enabling objectives in each module gradually advance to the next level of the cognitive process dimension until reaching a terminal learning objective categorized at the highest level.

The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) provides a framework for targeting the use of the technology. Each digital media in the course is allocated by the matrix composed of five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, collaborative, constructive, authentic, and goal-oriented. They are associated with five levels of technology integration: entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation. The digital content in this course targets the entry, adoption, and adaptation levels in active and authentic learning environments.

The content has multiple perceptive options to increase accessibility, applying the Universal Design for Learning. For example, a video is supplemented with auxiliary aids such as captions, transcripts, audio descriptions, etc., for both disabled and abled learners alike to have alternative forms to access the content. Each digital media is assessed with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, in which the success criteria conformance level is identified. The findings are recorded in the Digital Media Checklist.

 Select image to view each content. Completed checklist is added on the page.