At the close of EDTEC 644 you will be able to:

1. identify emergent trends and theories in instructional design;
2. analyze the role of education and training in organizations, especially your client's organization; and describe issues likely to arise between developers, SME's, clients and colleagues, models for consulting relationships, and strategies for enhancing those relationships;
3. plan and conduct a some kinds of analyses and assessments to figure out what to do in general and in detail;
4. communicate the results of analyses through oral and written briefings;
5. where appropriate, conduct procedural and cognitive task analyses;
6. specify goals, enabling objectives and terminal objectives on the basis of numbers 1-5 above, including generating objectives and being able to describe some of the constructivist issues surrounding objectives and instructional design, in general;
7. speculate on the implications of readings and lectures for instructional designers and the organizations in which they work and apply this effort to actual ID cases, including your client's challenges;
8. create detailed lesson specifications, prototypes and instructional or informational strategies appropriate to your client, with a particular emphasis on online ID;
9. develop a brief evaluation plan appropriate to your project;
10. describe current theories contributing to motivation, attitude change, decision-making, transfer and judgment enhancement;
11. describe how various and emergent perspectives and theories have been applied to your project and ID cases;
12. describe emergent career opportunities and constraints for instructional designers, focusing particularly on the implications of performance technology and the Internet;
13. examine the hype and hope associated with e-learning
14. find published (conventionally and online) resources associated with the nexus between the web and instructional design;
15. assess your effectiveness as a communicator with customers and colleagues, as an external consultant, and as an instructional designer, and identify opportunities for personal and professional growth;
16. use professional resources (e.g., Love Library, WWW, and local professional associations) to gather information and establish professional habits and relationships; and
17. work independently to sharpen professional and communications skills.