Curriculum Analysis and Design Course

Training courses that do not address specific job-related knowledge and skills usually disrupt the entire work effort including people who do not attend the courses. Such waste of your organization’s time and money is especially acute when the training is offered to software developers. Today people costs far exceed other software development expenditures. Today you must address the issue of people efficiency. Curriculum Analysis and Design shows you how to develop un-compromised job-related people-efficient training.

Most managers have learned to fear training courses that do not focus on specific job knowledge and job skills. Curriculum Analysis and Design shows you how to allay manager’s fears by upgrading existing courses and creating new courses to directly address the job knowledge and job skills training needs of the targeted work population.

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:
> Analyze employee performance requirements
> Validate course requirements
> Select course content based on actual job-oriented criteria
> Identify requirements for documentation and job aids
> Implement an organized approach for developing performance-oriented courses for employees and  customers
> Establish process and product standards for purchasing courses from other companies
> Establish common national and international standards for joint curriculum analysis and design efforts  with other companies

Introduction
Purpose of Curriculum Analysis and Design
Course Development Life Cycle
Structure of Course Development Process
Course Development Problems
Performing Preliminary Study
Symptoms of Problems
Causes of Problems
Solutions of Possible Problems
Estimating Cost and Benefit of Educational Solutions

Analyzing Performance Requirements
Performance Statements
Sources of Performance Statements
Communications Between the "Real World" and Course Developer

Validation Questionnaires
Validation of Performance Statements
Selection of Performance Statements
Selection of Course, Documentation and Job Aid Content

Developing Module Structures
Module Outline
Exercise Outline
Performance Objectives
Instructional Requirements
Module Requirements

Designing Delivery Methods
Instructional Maps
Instructor's Guide
Student's Guide