Most L&D professionals recognise the importance of analysing learners, content and objectives. This content stream focuses on doing that work in ways that help maximise effective application of learning.
In practice, that means taking a deeper look at:
These are the three modules you can choose from in the Planning and Analysis content stream:
This module explores three crucial elements to consider before you get started with your instructional design:
Module length: 1.5 hours

This very task-focused module guides you through several key areas of your early stage analysis work:
The module also explores how to align those outcomes with the evaluation framework introduced in module PA01.
Module length: 2 hours

This module shows you how to:
Module length: 1 hour

As an ITOL Accredited Centre, all our courses and programmes count towards badges, certificates or diplomas.
By including any 4 modules from the following content streams in your in-house programme (Planning and Analysis; Instructional Design Fundamentals; Face-to-Face Classroom Design) and successfully completing the formal end of modules assessment, you’ll receive an ITOL accredited Certificate in Instructional Design Fundamentals.
Many people working in L&D already cover the right ground at the start of a project - learners, objectives, content.
But, what often makes the most difference to the success of a project isn't what you look at but how deeply you look and what you choose to question.
Learning Re-Framed is a weekly Substack where Pacific Blue Co-Founder Andrew Jackson, explores familiar L&D practices. How they can be refined and re-framed. How they can better support successful application of learning in day-to-day work.
All of the modules in the Planning and Analysis content stream are available in the following delivery mediums:
If you need more information about our Learning Re-Framed in-house or public programme download one of the comprehensive brochures shown below:
Ready to take a look at the modules in other content streams? Use the links below or the main site menu above.
If you are ready to put your modules together into a customised in-house course, take a look at the How does it all work? page.
This explains how you can put together the modules you want into a customised programme.
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If you’re grappling with the early stages of a learning project — clarifying what really needs to change, making sense of messy content, or deciding where to focus your effort — this short guide may be helpful.
The Essential Step-by-Step Guide to Instructional Design doesn’t offer a new methodology or a silver bullet. Instead, it captures a set of practical principles that experienced practitioners often arrive at through trial and error.
Inside, you’ll explore how to:
It’s a useful reference point — particularly if you’ve found yourself doing the right things, but not always getting the results you’d hoped for.
If this way of thinking resonates, you may also want to subscribe to Learning Re-Framed, which explores these ideas (and their limits) in more depth through short, weekly reflections.
Download the guide below if it’s useful — and feel free to treat it as one input into a wider conversation.
