How it all comes together: chronic of a Learning Unit

My portfolio includes samples that were cherry-picked from different courses to feature the stages of the ADDIE model. In contrast, this post focuses on showing every stage of the process for a single learning unit. We'll go through the following instructional design stages:

1. Curricular analysis and design: syllabus and course planning (learning outcomes)

2. Course content development: authoring, media production

3. Audiovisual production: footage recording, graphic design, audio processing and video post-production

4. Implementation: course upload and launch

5. Evaluation: upload of formative / summative evaluations and projects

1. Curricular analysis and design

This stage consists of analyzing the course's place in the curriculum to identify the student's previous knowledge and design the learning experience in a syllabus, based on the subject matter taken from the bibliographic research.The deliverable from this stage, is a set of learning outcomes for each lesson in the course, which are likely to be improved upon during the development stage. By linking the curricular requirements to each single learning outcome we make sure that the student's needs are met.

Let's begin!

1.1. Curricular analysis.

This image shows course 021-02, located in term 10 of the curriculum. This means that it has a long list of prerequisites.

This file is an excerpt from the course's syllabus, which I created.

01 Syllabus Cubase Expert (English).pdf

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1.2. Bibliographic research

This sample is a translation of the bibliographic research I made for the course, which involved three different user manuals from the software's manufacturer. There are two tabs in the document: Book Research includes the thematic breakdown of the course's sources and the End Result is the summary of all the learning units (in Spanish).

01 Bibliographic Research (english) v2.x

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1.3. Learning outcomes

Based on that research, I designed the learning outcomes. Here is the translated list for lesson 16.

01 Syllabus Cubase Expert (English) v2.p

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LEARNING OUTCOMES - Cubase Expert (Engli

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2. Course content development

This stage includes the creation of all the learning materials. I have performed and supervised all of the related roles, from training the content developers to authoring the whole course myself.

In the case of our example, let's take a look at lesson 16 from the course. I wrote the content in Spanish because that's the language of the first release. This text is the input for other processes (footage recording and video editing), which is why it includes a writing style for video as well as the necessary screenshots and multimedia codes for the video editors to use as a reference.

Steinberg Cubase Expert Certificate(2019

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3. Audiovisual production

This stage takes the final script and creates all the multimedia assets required for the end product. Then, the video editors combine such assets and export the final version of the learning unit.

Here's an example. The finished video of a learning unit for another course (the course we´ve seen so far is currently under production, so the finished video hasn't been released yet).

https://video.wixstatic.com/video/bd0cd8_ec6f608149da4c22aa79b2ccf5483123/1080p/mp4/file.mp4

4. Implementation

This stage consists of the upload and launch of the course in the LMS (Learning Management System). I worked as LMS system manager and course instructor for several years.

5. Evaluation

This stage consists of measuring the knowledge transfer of the course. I´ve created thousands of formative evaluation items and authored summative evaluations, including virtual workshops and degree evaluation projects.

The following gallery is taken from an excel template I programmed to translate the questions to XML format for server upload to generate questionnaires in an LMS. This template saves hundreds of hours worth of uploading single questions.

Sheet 1: Instructions

Sheet 2: Counts the questions per lesson

Sheet 3: This is where the questions are written by the content developer. A single row is used to record the question, the answer and the distractors. I've written thousands of them.

Sheet 4: Converts all the data from Sheet 3 to text in XML format (which can be seen in column A). The blue button copies the XML text for pasting and saving in a separate text file.

This was a brief summary of all my involvement in the production of a course. If you have any questions, feel free to send me a message from the Contact section of this website.