Is the training you create failing to meet your organisation's performance needs?
Are you under pressure to change or extend how you deliver training, but concerned you don't have the skills to make it happen?
Are you changing role from trainer to training designer, but have limited instructional design experience?
Then discover how our flexible, modular instructional design training programme can give you exactly the help, guidance and expertise you need, whenever and wherever you need it
In uncertain economic times, with picky customers wanting more for less and 
aggressive competitors snapping at your heels, an organisations needs its employees at the top of their game. More than ever, the role of training is critical to business success.
To engage your learners, introduce new skills and improve organisational performance, you'll need reliable guiding principles and a focused, results-driven approach.
What makes our programme stand out from the crowd?
Our popular, flexible programme isn't just any old run-of-the mill instructional design course. It's a carefully crafted modular programme that will help you enhance your skills and create courses that really get results:
Get the latest in best practice - we incorporate the most up-to-date thinking and best practices, developed and honed by top instructional design and course development experts from around the world.
Get the benefit of others' hard work - there are lots of clever people out there continually doing research into how we learn. We think you should benefit from their hard work, so we include many of their results and findings in our programme.
Their research doesn't solve every instructional problem you might face, but it does provide the basis for practical design principles. Principles you can easily apply to your work.
Get help after the course - because we pay attention to research, we know this for sure: you'll forget about 80% of what you learn after 3-4 weeks of the course finishing - unless there is reinforcement or additional practice.
For this reason, we provide additional reinforcement and follow-up for 2 months after the course. We send you follow-up content and activities by email every few days.
The really good news? This is included as part of the standard course cost.
Get what you want when you want it - with our unique, modular (and highly flexible) programme, you can get exactly the course you need when you need it. Have one hit of training or spread the load.
Get a great learning experience - we practice what we preach, so all our modules use the techniques and approaches you will be learning about.
Get the results you need - if we do our job well, you succeed. So we love it when you can go off and create great courses. Courses that help embed learning, improve performance and increase results. In fact, nothing makes us happier - apart from a nice glass of wine on a Friday evening, that is!
Still not convinced? - see some of the nice things our customers say about our courses or read some more about our views on instructional design and learning, here on planet Pacific Blue:
One final point - we are really fascinated by the learning process and love teaching people about learning and instructional design. Okay, we admit it, we are a bit nerdy in that respect.
But you don't have to be nerdy to appreciate that a well-designed and delivered learning experience that achieves results and makes your learners happy is a truly wonderful thing!
Why do organisations take our programme?
There are many reasons organisations take our programme. Do any of these sound familar to you?
- your organisation's current training courses are not getting good results or are not improving performance as much as you would like.
- you are changing the way you deliver training and want to design for new mediums such as e-learning, mobile or a blend.
- you are changing the type of content you design; as an example, you have lots of skills in technical training, but now need to start designing soft skills courses.
- your organisation is bringing its training design and delivery in-house for the first time and you need to skill your new team.
What kind of people take our programme?
We have a range of people taking our instructional design programme. It is ideal if:
- you are new to the role of developing training programmes
- you are a trainer with lots of delivery experience but limited design experience
- you have design experience limited to one medium (e.g. classroom) and you need to learn about a different medium (e.g. e-learning).
- you have lots of informal on-the-job design experience, but no formal training
- you want to extend and update your instructional design skills and knowledge
Overview of the programme
Our award-winning approach to instructional design is designed to maximise the value of your learning content. For you to get exactly the help you need, we provide a pick and mix formula.
We have five content streams. Each stream is made up of several modules, each module lasting between one and three hours, depending on the version you select.
You can choose whichever modules and versions you like from whichever streams you like and combine them together into a programme that's tailored to you.
Use the links below to browse the modules in each content stream:
- Planning and Analysis
- Instructional Design Fundamentals
- e-Instructional Design
- New Learning Mediums
- Visuals to Support Learning