training manual

Training manual project (100 points)

Over the last two weeks, the focus of the course will be on the implementation and use of the cognitive training model to create an instructional package. This package will consist of a training manual for instructional designers on how to identify, select, use, and design instructional strategies (e.g., analogies). Please make sure that you understand: The target learners of your instructional package are instructional designers and the content area is on instructional strategies not phases of instructional design. If your project does not meet the requirements highlighted, no matter how good your writing is, the grade you get will be a zero. The requirement for this project is very specific. If you have a problem understanding the requirement, please talk to me as early as possible.

Obviously, this is an even bigger thing!! Combining Driscoll (2005) and Mayer (2008) with Foshay, et al. (2003) will help you complete this project. Please note: we do not discuss Foshay as we do Driscoll and Mayer. It does not mean that Foshay is not of the same importance. As a matter of fact, Foshay will help you more directly with your training manual project. However, without Driscoll and/or Mayer, you will hardly be able to design

 instruction that is truly effective, efficient, and appealing.

Again, start your “thinking” early. A top student in my previous class said: “This is a lot harder than I thought it would be, and I wish I would have started it mid-semester, so I could have flexed it and shaped it much better than time allows me now. Foshay offers great tips and structural ideas.” I hope this quotation can be used as a “warning” for you to start this project as early as you can. Requirements: Develop chapters within the manual that describe:

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What it is (description of the strategy/approach), When to select and use it (conditions of use), Why it should be selected (research on effectiveness of the

strategy), How it is best utilized,

How to design the strategy, and Related research and references

Make sure that you understand you do need to include learning objectives and assessment items in each chapter. Your learning objectives need to reach the highest level of design and your assessment need to test all the learning objectives appropriately. You also need to design instructional strategies for your instruction. Make sure that you “study” the rubric that will be used to grade your training manual so you will not miss anything that should be reflected in your writing in order to receive points for all the required criteria.

In order to help you better, there are four stages for the project:

1. Plan and report

2. Outline

3. Project due

4. Possible revision

Please refer to the tentative schedule for the deadline for each stage. Please note: Stage Three is your project due and you will get a grade at this stage. Do make sure that you will do a “perfect” job when you submit your project at Stage Three. I may or may not provide you with an opportunity of revision, so Stage Four may or may not apply to everyone accordingly.

The paper and the project will be submitted through SafeAssignment on the Blackboard course site. SafeAssignment is a program that checks originality of the project/paper. All submissions through SafeAssignment are saved on the ISU database. A project that is found not original will automatically get an F (please also refer to Code of Student Conduct http://www.indstate.edu/sci/docs/2012-StudentGuide-AcademicIntegrity.pdf for details). I open a Self Check window for you to check originality of your work before submitting it to me. Make sure that you submit your original work written or designed for this class.

Good luck with your project!!!