IDPCC: Welcome to the course

Speaker: William Cronje

Hi there. My name is William Cronje and I'm an instructional designer and program manager at
Eduflow Academy. I've been creating online courses and blended learning experiences for the last
five or so years, and recently I've become really fascinated with how we can create social and
collaborative learning experiences. So, thank you so much for signing up to participate in this
Instructional Design Principles course.

My role in this course is to be your guide on the side. I hope to learn as much from you as I hope that
you are hoping to learn from the course during the next three and a half weeks or so. We are going to
use a very popular project management framework for instructional designers called the ADDIE
Process as a framework to introduce really important considerations and processes and models that
instructional designers use to build cohesive and thoughtful learning journeys.

In these three weeks, we will focus on the first three phases of the ADDIE process: analysis, design,
and development. Then, after week three, you will get access to a self-paced course that introduces
the final two steps of the ADDIE process: implementation and evaluation. We've done it this way
because doing or learning about the entire ADDIE process in three weeks is a very, very tall order and
it can become extremely overwhelming. So, the idea is that after the first three weeks you will create
your plan and start developing the material and then you can come back and complete the final two
modules (Implementation and Evaluation) when you feel that you are ready.

So, how can you make the most out of this experience? You will notice that we keep talking about the
fact that this is a cohort-based course. That means that you are working through the course material
along with a big group of other instructional design enthusiasts. Some of them have a lot of
experience in the field, some of them are breaking out into instructional design. We also have people
from all over the world, from over 70 different countries who are participating. So, the amount of
experience and knowledge in this cohort is impressive and I really hope that you will tap into that.

The most important part about this course is not the course material, it is actually you and every other
participant in this course. So, to enable that collaboration, we've included a lot of different activities
that will encourage you to get to know other people and to tap into that knowledge. There are Padlet
activities (which are kind of like wikis where you can share knowledge), we've got discussions, we've
got workshops, and very importantly, we've got feedback activities. So, the way that they work is you
submit something and then you get to review two other submissions. And once you've completed your
review of two other submissions, you will see reviews that they or that other participants have given
you.

You will also notice that we don't have any grades in this course. We want you to value and we value
the journey and not the certificate at the end of the road. This is an experience. As an introvert myself,
I completely understand how it can be difficult to step out of your shell and get to know strangers on
the Internet. But I encourage you to try. It is an incredibly rich learning experience, and I know it
sounds cheesy when I say this, but you really get out what you put in to this course. The amount of
energy you put in will most likely be returned in enthusiasm and knowledge that you get back. So, I

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hope you're really excited. We are about to jump into week one of the course, which is all about the
analysis phase. I will see you at the workshops and in the discussions.

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