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Have you ever been in a training session, presentation or seminar, and found that you can’t seem to concentrate no matter how hard you try? Or your mind wanders off as you get distracted by an image included in the presenter’s slides? Instructional resources can help the learning process – or hinder it. With this learning design microcredential from UTS Open, you’ll gain the skills to create impactful educational activities, objects and environments that transform the learner experience.

About this microcredential

Effective communication is crucial to the learning design process. This UTS microcredential will introduce you to theories of educational communication and instructional media and demonstrate how they influence the design of learning activities and environments.

You’ll examine and critique examples of print, online, visual and audio multimedia, evaluating their effectiveness as tools to enhance the learning experience.

Further, you will:

Explore methods of building interactivity into the learning design process

Examine the basic elements of media design

Put your learning into practice by developing your own interactive media object.

Key benefits of this microcredential

This microcredential has been designed to:

Provide you with in-depth knowledge of theoretical frameworks underpinning educational communication and instructional media

Develop practical learning design skills that can be applied in various industries

Equip you with the skills to analyse and critique instructional resources using various tools and theoretical models

Strengthen your ability to be a critical user of different learning technologies.

This microcredential aligns with the 3 credit point subject, Create: Creating Interactive Multimedia Objects (010307) in the Graduate Certificate in Learning Design. This microcredential may qualify for recognition of prior learning at this and other institutions.

Who should do this microcredential?

This microcredential is aimed at professionals in any sector who are involved in the development and facilitation of learning and education. These include, but are not limited to:

HR professionals

Learning designers

Instructional designers

Trainers

School teachers

PhD students.