Analysis
Step 7 & 8: What’s the purpose of the course?
Identify the components of a properly constructed problem and instructional goal(s) statement and construct statements of your own.
Getting
to the heart of the matter
Now that you've
determined who the course is for and how it's going to be delivered, it's
time to articulate these decisions into two statements: 1) the Problem
Statement and the 2) Instructional Goal(s) statement. These statements
summarize the analysis phase of the ISD process and provide the rationale
for the instructional solution you have identified.
Step 7: Writing the problem statement
A properly written problem statement has three components.
Roll your mouse over the problem statement below to determine the three
parts and how they apply to this course:
Step 8: Writing the instructional goal(s) statement
The Instructional Goal(s) Statement is a statement of intent. It describes what learners will be able to do upon completion of the instruction and drives the rest of the instructional design process. A correctly stated instructional goal is: 1) written in terms of the learner's performance and 2) stated in terms of precise, measurable, and observable actions.
The goal statement for this course is:
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Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to develop instructionally sound distance learning materials for delivery over the Internet. |
Next lesson
At this point in the analysis process, the course is beginning to take shape. In the next lesson, you will actually start to look at the course content to determine what the course should contain in order to accomplish the course goal(s). To do this, you will describe a process for brainstorming and identify the two parts of a content analysis.