Instructional Design
Achieve Greater Success Through Innovative Learning
Training or upskilling your employees can be a difficult task, regardless of your industry. Complex processes, exacting requirements and regulations can quickly prove overwhelming to untrained or underprepared staff. Even the best and most experienced employees can struggle to achieve their full potential without the proper education and training.
Our Approach to Instructional Design
Training or upskilling your employees can be a difficult task, regardless of your industry. Complex processes, exacting requirements and regulations can quickly prove overwhelming to untrained or underprepared staff. Even the best and most experienced employees can struggle to achieve their full potential without the proper education and training.
At Allen Interactions, we’re here to help you overcome the challenges associated with employee education and training. Our instructional design experts can help you create new learning experience or turn boring, ineffective training courses into a dynamic learning ecosystem.
Context
The first step in developing impactful e-learning is to identify why the skills being taught are relevant to the learner. Context is critical to establishing applicability of what is to be learned.
Challenge
The second step in effective instructional design is to create a challenge that motivates the learner and further communicates what learners will be able to do upon course completion. Establishing authentic risks and the potential for real-world success gives learners a stimulus to act, which is critical to ensuring full learner engagement.
Activity
Once the context and challenge are established, the learner considers what actions would be appropriate and effective. Provisions for learner actions should be broad and as unrestrictive as possible. They should not provide prompts that wouldn’t appear in performance contexts.
Feedback
Finally, it is important for learners to see the consequences of their actions wherever they can be simulated. It’s at this point that instruction and/or explanations can be offered to help failing learners do better on subsequent iterations until performance reaches success criteria.
The awesomely effective CCAF design model can be applied to any instructional design project, regardless of industry or end goal.
Download Our 4 Pillars Playbook
Creative Interactive eLearning Instructional Designs ebook.
Instructional interactions require four components: Context, Challenge, Activity, and Feedback (CCAF). There is surprising complexity in how designers master this model.
Download this eBook to explore this complexity and establish some straightforward insights into how to best integrate CCAF thinking into your own digital learning design process.
Featured Case Study
AutoNation Case Study
Optimizing Sales Enablement and Productivity
AutoNation, America’s largest automotive dealer with over 20,000 sales associates, faced a common sales struggle: too much content, too many people, and too little time to train them. The company needed a scalable, repeatable, and productive training solution that minimized time away from the sales floor and delivered measurable increases in unit sales, ROI, and total revenue growth.
After trusting Allen Interactions with their training needs, the company experienced the following:
20% increase in sales rep retention
22% increase in productivity (sales per rep)
$10 million in additional profit
Trust Allen Interactions with your instructional design project
In this thriving and ever-growing e-learning industry, we know you have many options when selecting an instructional design partner.
Our clients choose us to be their instructional design partner for many reasons, including our:
Knowledge of technology
There’s no doubt that technology plays a vital role in today’s e-learning delivery. Unfortunately, the wide range of solutions available today and the myriad capabilities each platform offers can make it difficult to choose the best technology for your needs, much less make it work effectively. We leverage an innate knowledge of available e-learning technology solutions and our access to emerging platforms to help you identify the right fit for your organization. Once the appropriate platform is identified, we will help you develop a roadmap for optimizing its capabilities to fit your organization’s specific needs and goals.
Proven approach
In our decades of practice, we have developed a proven approach to instructional design. By incorporating advanced systems engineering and creative, evidence-based learning development, we are able to help you efficiently develop an e-learning ecosystem that focuses on delivering impactful, engaging content.
Extensive experience
With experience derived from almost countless successful projects, our team has the knowledge and skill needed to help you tackle even the most complex e-learning challenges. Our work across myriad industries has given us unique insight into the learning needs of organizations both big and small.
Hands-on collaboration
Your instructional design needs are unique to you – no other organization, even those in the same industry, face your precise challenges. With competitive success in mind, we work closely with your team to identify your specific goals and best practices and then to identify a unique strategy to achieve them. Throughout our relationship, our team will engage with you to ensure all of your concerns, ideas, and feedback are considered. This hands-on collaboration is critical to developing truly effective e-learning strategies for your organization.
Continued evolution
The way we as humans prefer to learn is evolving along with advances in technology and best practices to deliver educational content. As recognized thought-leaders, we maintain constant awareness of the industry, emerging solutions and strategies, and changing learning requirements to remain on the forefront of instructional design and e-learning development.
If you are ready to create an e-learning ecosystem to deliver Meaningful, Memorable and Motivational learning experiences, Allen Interactions can help.