Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Me as an Instructional Designer

My previous blog would have given you a rough idea of what Instructional Designing is. What is my part in that.

The content will be provided by the clients in the form of Word documents PowerPoint presentations. Sometimes clients give content junks. First step is to analyse the content. The content is split into logical junks or modules (Technically these are called SCOs - Sharable Courseware Objects. Previously it was called RLOs - Reusable Logical Objects). Each module will a name. These modules must be independent and no module should be referred in the other modules. Then the storyboard will be created for the course. Once the storyboard is over, the visualization takes place. Each frame of the course will have relevant images. The storyboard and the images are given to the programmer who integrates the components into a single location. The packaged course is sent for quality check. After fixing the bugs the course is launced or sent to the client.

What I have given is just an outline. Instructional Designing is more creative and it involves lots of learning.

2 comments:

Naren Balaji said...

seems like an interesting career. creative job? how is it that you get time to blog & orkut??

Thrivikraman said...

A creative job indeed.. but doesnt confortable for geeky-programmers, and ppl who dont hav patience to read long texts :D But it wld hv suited me.. :p