--- title: Planning & Analysis Modules description: "The modules in this content stream will help you: analyse your learners, the scope and complexity of your content and consider how to evaluate your goals." --- **** [![pacific-blue-logo-white](https://www.pacificblue.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/White%20transparent.png?width=520&height=105&name=White%20transparent.png) ![Pacific Blue Logo](https://www.pacificblue.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/Corporate%20blue%20transparent.png?width=520&height=105&name=Corporate%20blue%20transparent.png) ](https://www.pacificblue.co.uk) [![LET'S TALK](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/31306/0bee0e88-7dab-4481-aa27-3e0ea6439460.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/31306/0bee0e88-7dab-4481-aa27-3e0ea6439460) [**](https://www.pacificblue.co.uk/planning-and-analysis#tmpmodule_1565312155912709) ** #### Learning Re-Framed In-House Programme #### Articulate Storyline #### Learning Re-Framed Public Programme #### E-Learning Design Services #### Other Design and Support Services #### More ![Customers](https://www.pacificblue.co.uk/hubfs/Customers.jpg "Customers") ![Two people working with post-it notes - small](https://www.pacificblue.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/Two%20people%20working%20with%20post-it%20notes%20-%20small.jpg?width=640&height=480&name=Two%20people%20working%20with%20post-it%20notes%20-%20small.jpg) # Planning and Analysis Modules #### Build a foundation that connects your learning design to what actually needs to change in the workplace.   ## About The Planning and Analysis Modules 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: - what people actually need to do differently - not just what they need to know - who your learners really are, including what might help or hinder change, and - how to make sense of complex, often conflicting content.   ## What Are The Available Modules? These are the **three modules** you can choose from in the **Planning and Analysis** content stream:   ### PA01: Setting The Scene This module explores three crucial elements to consider before you get started with your instructional design: - How changing views on and theories of instructional design exert significant influence over how we all think about learning and learning design. - How to identify and leverage likely levels of motivation amongst your learners. - How to work with others in your organisation to establish a framework for evaluating your learning, from the outset. **Module length**: 1.5 hours ![fc1bb0cc-5961-4f91-ba6c-e0d2f2b195a9](https://www.pacificblue.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/fc1bb0cc-5961-4f91-ba6c-e0d2f2b195a9.png?width=50&height=50&name=fc1bb0cc-5961-4f91-ba6c-e0d2f2b195a9.png)   ![Pair working on whiteboard - small](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/5816394/CLEAN-images/gfx/lazy-placeholder-350x200.jpg)   ### PA02: Getting Up And Running This very task-focused module guides you through several key areas of your early stage analysis work: - Gathering information to help form a clear picture of your learners - Identifying their needs to define relevant performance and learning outcomes The module also explores how to align those outcomes with the evaluation framework introduced in module PA01. **Module length**: 2 hours ![fc1bb0cc-5961-4f91-ba6c-e0d2f2b195a9](https://www.pacificblue.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/fc1bb0cc-5961-4f91-ba6c-e0d2f2b195a9.png?width=50&height=50&name=fc1bb0cc-5961-4f91-ba6c-e0d2f2b195a9.png) ![Three people looking at a laptop - small](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/5816394/CLEAN-images/gfx/lazy-placeholder-350x200.jpg)   ### PA03 Analysing and Scoping Your Content This module shows you how to: - use a simple set of pre-defined content categories to unpick and streamline an SME 'brain dump' - use those pre-defined categories to plug gaps or remove any inaccuracies in your content, and - turn them into a meaningful content outline - the foundation for creating learner-centred courses and modules.   **Module length**: 1 hour ![fc1bb0cc-5961-4f91-ba6c-e0d2f2b195a9](https://www.pacificblue.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/fc1bb0cc-5961-4f91-ba6c-e0d2f2b195a9.png?width=50&height=50&name=fc1bb0cc-5961-4f91-ba6c-e0d2f2b195a9.png) ![Man working with post-it notes - small](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/5816394/CLEAN-images/gfx/lazy-placeholder-350x200.jpg) ![ITOL Accredited Centre Logo](https://www.pacificblue.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/fc1bb0cc-5961-4f91-ba6c-e0d2f2b195a9.png?width=180&height=180&name=fc1bb0cc-5961-4f91-ba6c-e0d2f2b195a9.png)   ## ITOL Accredited Certificate 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**. ### Planning and analysis doesn't have to feel like guesswork 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.   [![SUBSCRIBE TO LEARNING RE-FRAMED](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/31306/interactive-204447066248.png) ](https://www.pacificblue.co.uk/hs/cta/wi/redirect?encryptedPayload=AVxigLIbYNReYn7Yfyied0x6DoC%2FSwvSRnSPByERgJG3dm8eQWPCV83sdBfp%2FR7%2BuhX4v9kttT5ZAXEWw6Uy%2BUCFOqRWMNlvVLHUwJIZuuPzyDnxpiwiTbwXzH284MQdj9XAWLH8mzLiNe6fr0vV009dl9kGNHV4gjkUWaUUQ2GPS6nxYdgwlwIczy4%3D&webInteractiveContentId=204447066248&portalId=31306) ![Designing Learning](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/5816394/CLEAN-images/gfx/lazy-placeholder-350x200.jpg)   ## Available Delivery Mediums All of the modules in the **Planning and Analysis** content stream are available in the following delivery mediums: #### 1. In-Person Classroom An in-person, in-house course happens on your premises at a date or dates convenient to you. Any trainer travel or accommodation expenses associated with delivery, are re-charged to you. ** #### 2. Live Online Virtual Classroom A live online virtual classroom programme means all sessions are held over the web at a date or dates convenient to you. Attendees need a desktop or laptop computer and a stable broadband connection. ** ## Download a Learning Re-Framed Programme Brochure... 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This explains how you can put together the modules you want into a customised programme. - The minimum length for a programme is half a day face-to-face or 3 hours of virtual classroom time - The maximum length is determined by however many modules you want to include ### Get Help Use the form below to contact us about your question or message:   ## A practical starting point to go a little deeper 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: - avoid defaulting to long, content-heavy presentations - think more deliberately about practice and application - design learning that has a better chance of influencing what people actually do at work 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 ](https://learningreframed.substack.com/)**[Learning Re-Framed](https://learningreframed.substack.com/),** which explores these ideas (and their limits) in more depth through short, weekly reflections. 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