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Work out the best way you like to learn! For example

a. you might like to spend an hour a day over the next 7 weeks

b. you may prefer to do your learning in chunks of time

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Over the next 12 weeks build your skills in the area of Instructional Design through a series of activities. The items in the padlet are worked on like a solitaire game week by week as a self directed learning piece.

How this would work is every week review the activities in the padlet for the week and work your way through them.

If you have any questions, reach out to your manager, buddy or one of your colleagues.

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What does an instructional designer do?

The purpose of the next 12 weeks is to add tools to your toolkit so that you are set up for success as an Instructional Designer (ID).

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Watch a simple video that explains the role of an instructional designer in creating fun and engaging learning experiences .

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Start your LinkedIn Learning Journey. Open up LinkedIn and click on learning.

Copy and paste the above URL to access your course

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Remember to come to the new starter page which has tips and tricks on where to find things at The Star Entertainment Group (TSEG)

New Starter (sharepoint.com)

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As you embark on your journey to becoming an instructional designer it is a good idea to journal your insights, learnings and next steps.

There are a couple of ways to do this you could do this in a notebook or you could take advantage of the notes section on your computer.

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1. Meet your buddy

2. Complete your elearning assignments over the next 2 weeks*

3. Request LinkedIn Access (through Service Now)*

4. Check with your manager on your access to L&D Folders

5. Request to be allocated an ‘Articulate License’

6. Complete a flexible working arrangement form*

Flexible Working Arrangement - Application Template.docx (sharepoint.com)

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Don't forget to write in your journal at the end of each week

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Don't forget to write in your journal at the end of each week

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What are 3 things that you learnt this week?

What are you looking forward to next week?

Who do you need to connect with?

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Start your journey

1. Review the new starter page again (link below)

New Starter (sharepoint.com)

2. Continue with your elearning assignments*

3. In week 2 it is the beginning of building your skills.  Here are some additional LinkedIn Courses to add into your library (complete these over the next 3 weeks)

Build your skills as an Instructional Designer (complete week 2)

Build Your Skills as an Instructional Designer | LinkedIn Learning

4. Learn how to use Microsoft teams*

5. Review the L&D Organisational chart

6. Review the Intranet to look up information (everything from Staff Benefits to Policy and Procedures)*

7. Connect with a different person every week from the Learning and Development team (put 30 minutes in their diary to find out about their background)

8. Join the elearning heroes email subscription (link below)

Articulate E-Learning Heroes Community

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Reflection

1. What has been your biggest insight this week?

2. How many new people have you connected with?  Who else do you need to meet?

3. What are 3 of your development areas (that is what do you want to learn and improve on)?

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Prepare some answers to the question block in the image below

Book 1 hour with your manager to discuss and set up your Performance Goals in iConnect

View the Linkedin course

2.Elearning essentials Storyboarding

Visualizing elearning | LinkedIn Learning

Reflection:

What are 3 things that you have learnt this week?

What are 3 questions you need to ask about?

What are 3 of your development areas (that is what do you want to learn and improve on)?

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Treasure Hunt

*ask for recommendations for a restaurant off site near the office

*If you drink coffee find where the best coffee is

*If you like the gym find out where the nearest gym is and enquire about their memberships

Tip - find out through Staff Benefits whether there is a special for TSEG employees for the gym.

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Meetings

1.        whole Learning and Development team (Monday morning 15 minutes)

2.       Monthly L&D team

3.       Learning Strategy and Design (weekly)

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Spend some time with one of the Senior Instructional Designers

1. Share your reflections/observations on the elearning courses that you have completed?

2. Think of some questions to ask them related to Instructional Design

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Continue with some additional LinkedIn Learning Courses

3.Learning Articulate Rise

Add interactive flash cards | LinkedIn Learning

Book in some time with one of the Instructional Designers for an hour every week to find out

1.       Design and delivery guidelines

2.       Tips on Articulate Rise and Storyline

3.       When do we use Rise and when do we use Storyline?

4.       How do we add voice?

5.       How to edit?

6.       How to conduct UAT?

Spend time with one of the Instructional Designers to see how to run UAT on a course. Learn where this is recorded.

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Complete the following LinkedIn Course

4.Articulate Storyline essential training

Inserting and formatting shapes | LinkedIn Learning

Go into Articulate and duplicate a course so that you practice building an elearn in Rise (you should have already requested this software to be installed on your PC)

Call the file TEST_YOUR NAME

Practice putting in content, video and images

Prepare questions that you can ask one of the Senior Id’s (set up a meeting for the following week)

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Spend time with one of the ID’s to see what a typical day involves

Continue to work on your practice elearn in Articulate

Get feedback on  your elearns from one of the ID’s

Book a time with Shri in Governance to understand how governance impacts design

Request to complete the ‘Gallup Strengths’ to get an insight into your work style

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Don't forget to write your reflections in your learning journal at the end of each week.

You might like to set a reminder in your diary every Friday as a reminder!

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Congratulations you are 6 weeks into your learning journey

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Book a meeting with your manager to discuss your learning and reflection so far.

Continue to work on your practice elearn in Articulate Rise

Review the Welcome Day ‘Facilitator Guide to see how a session plan is written

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Learning Journal Reflection

What have you enjoyed?

What have you learnt about being an Instructional Designer?

What are you finding challenging?

Where do you need support in your learning?

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Feedback and a New elearn in Articulate Storyline

Send your practice elearn to one of the Senior ID’s for feedback. Book some time in their diary so you can walk them through your work

Copy over an Articulate Storyline elearn and then name it TEST2 _ YOUR NAME

Practice building an elearn in Storyline with pictures, url links and content

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Learning Journal Reflection

How is Articulate Rise different to Articulate Storyline?

Why would you use one of the the other?

What are you finding challenging?

Where do you need support in your learning?

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Elearning Heroes (Articulate)

Go to Google and search elearning heroes. Watch the recording of ‘Elearning 101’

E‑Learning 101 - E-Learning Heroes (articulate.com)

Read the following articles

The Dos and Don’ts of Separating Need-to-Know from Nice-to-Know - E-Learning Heroes (articulate.com)

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Review short sharp learning on elearning heroes

Identify some short learnings to enhance your ID skills

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Adult Learning Principles

Answer the following questions –

a)       What are adult learning principles?

b)      What is the ADDIE model?

c)       What is the 70:20:10 philosophy?

d)      How can you apply the above to learning that you build

e)      How do you write learning outcomes using Blooms taxonomy?

f) Why do we measure learning?

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Continue to work on your Articulate Storyline elearn

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Research

It is important to understand the theory behind how and why adults learn.

Question to think about - What is training and what is learning????

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Time to put your learning into practice

Ask your manager and Lead Instructional Designer to include you on client meetings so that you get exposure to requests coming into the team

Ask to work on your first project

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Measurement of Learning

All learning needs to be measured! Otherwise it is not learning.

Measurement can be formative or summative.

Google Kirkpatrick? What are the different levels of a Kirkpatrick Assessment?

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Learning Journal Reflection

What are your development areas?

How will you learning these?

What has been your biggest insight so far?

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Formal qualifications

Continue your learning pathway and think about any formal qualifications that are accredited.  This will add to your professional toolkit as an Instructional Designer/Learning Professional.

Some suggestions –

Professional Diploma in Digital Learning Design | Digital Learning Institute

Graduate Certificate in Education (Innovative Learning Design) - QUT Online

Graduate Certificate of Educational Design Online - Monash Online Courses

Instructional Design - Professional Development Course - AITD - Australian Institute of Training and Development (AITD)

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Reflections for your Learning Journal

Who have you met this week?

Where do they fit in?

What are the different areas in the Learning and Development team?

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Service Now

Book some time in with one of the Instructional Designers to learn how to use Service Now.

Areas to think about

1. How to review tickets?

2. up to update and close a ticket?

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Learning Journal

Don't forget to write in your learning journal

Look at how far you have come!

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Congratulations on your first 3 months

Review your learning journal and your insights so far.

Areas to think about -

1. What can you continue to do to build on your skills as an ID?

2. Who are the people that can help you learn?

3. what are the areas you are struggling with and how can you close this learning gap?

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Professional Associations

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Professional Associations

AHRI have a learning arm

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Learning styles & the importance of critical self-reflection | Tesia Marshik | TEDxUWLaCrosse

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Update your learning journal

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Link to Australian National University - Learning Journal

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Pedagogy or Andragogy

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Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching

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Schedule in a meeting with your leader to discuss how week 1 is going.

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Familiarise yourself with setting SMART goals

Watch this short video on how to build SMART goals.

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What was done well in Welcome Day? What are some improvements you could suggest?

Do the same with reflecting on ELEVATE?

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Measurment of Learning. Read the background to Donald Kirkpatrick's theory and why we measure learning effectiveness.

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The Kirkpatrick Model

Level 1: Reaction

The degree to which participants find the training favorable, engaging, and relevant to their jobs

Level 2: Learning

The degree to which participants acquire the intended knowledge, skills, attitude, confidence, and commitment based on their participation in the training

Level 3: Behavior

The degree to which participants apply what they learned during training when they are back on the job

Level 4: Results

The degree to which targeted outcomes occur as a result of the training and the support and accountability package

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The Kirkpatrick Model, or four levels of training evaluation, consists of Reaction, Learning, Behavior and Results.

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Check with your manager on your mid probation review. Book in an hour with your manager. It is also a good time to think about your development plan

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Note

If you are an internal candidate you won't need to do some of the activities as you will already be familiar with the office environment and surrounds.

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Read this article about journaling and how it can be a powerful tool in business and professional development (there is science behind this)

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Entrepreneur, philanthropist and international speaker. Regan Hillyer is here to help you make a bigger impact. www.reganhillyer.com
I have written extensively around goal setting and taking massive aligned action to prevent yourself from stalling and treading water when establishing and building your business or amplifying your personal life and career.

However, there is one other, quite simple tool that has been useful in my professional, business and personal growth that is readily available to coaches and entrepreneurs and that I believe is enormously beneficial for assisting growth on all of these fronts.
An Invaluable Daily Practice
It doesn't require huge resources, nor does it require a big input of scarce time. Just a few minutes each day. It can also be done in conjunction with a morning cup of coffee or whatever ritual you prefer. I am, at this moment, inferring that you will have an established daily ritual to commence your workday, as opposed to the "headless chicken" approach to managing what is being thrown at you.

I am a great fan of regular, daily journaling. And, as a business development tool and a vehicle for goal setting, I have found it to be a part of my daily practice that is invaluable.

Now, there are some of you who would regard this tool as too "New Age," not an actual practical device, a bit of a gimmick and a swallower of precious time that could well be placed into other, more worthy and valuable areas. To this, I would encourage you to try it and approach it with a degree of open-mindedness that you would embark on, say, the learning of a new piece of software or embracing a new business concept. Try it, and it may just turn out to be really useful.
A Guide To Journaling: A Simple, Practical Business Development Tool
However, it is not simply a matter of sitting down and scribbling out an unrestrained stream of consciousness, but rather crafting a targeted, ordered useful practice. To this end, I have supplied some guidelines:

First, arm yourself with a user-friendly way of recording your output. I prefer a really good-looking lined book that I enjoy holding and recording in, especially one that always lives on my bedside table - looking gorgeous and inviting. It's a good idea for it to stay in one place nearby, ready to capture your inspired thoughts morning and night.

In our digital age, this method might not suit everyone. I recall one client who, although incredibly talented and successful, came to me with a legacy from his early years of not performing efficiently or comfortably with paper and pen. He preferred to dictate his goals and ideas into a portable dictaphone and replay and edit them.

Other clients prefer to record digital voice memos that are labeled and stored methodically. Whatever your preferred method, please just ensure that it is not on scraps of paper randomly tossed around as you will want to recall these thoughts and ideas and will want to review them. So be organized and professional in your methods.
Getting Started
So, you are set to go. You've selected your preferred method of recording, made the space and settled in comfortably... what next?

Start writing. Start thinking about goals and ideas to take your business, your wider life or your career to the next desired level. Also, think around associated concepts for your goals.

Here's a prompt that I use with clients to help set them up for success: If I could make anything happen, what would I choose as my onward goals for this year?

I do have to stress at this point that it is not specifically about what you write, but about the energetic state that your journaling brings you into. It's about you harnessing your creativity, tapping into your ideas and visions that have gotten you this far in your life, work or career. Often, my clients send me their journaling and ask me: "Regan, am I doing it right?" There is no right or wrong. It's about your energy and creativity.
As humans, we are highly associative beings.
It isn't about writing a perfectly scripted, beautifully penned manuscript with all the "right" inspirational language as though you have an audience. You have no wider audience, the only audience is you. And this form of tapping into your creativity around various areas of your work and life is only for you.

And therefore, we have associative idea threads. According to the APA Dictionary of Psychology, "Associative Learning [is] the process of acquiring new and enduring information via the formation of bonds or connections between elements. In different types of associationistic learning theories, these associated elements may be stimulus and response, mental representations of events, or elements in neural networks."

In a nutshell, it means our brains were not designed to recall information in isolation; instead, we group information together into one associative memory.

Journaling assists your brain to link ideas and not simply think in isolation. It also links your emotions to your life and work, thereby helping to promote clarity and insight. When you express yourself, you create the emotions that spur on these creative insights, which are the true nuts and bolts of business.

When you are journaling, you will become aware of what emotions, negative and positive alike, are emerging during the process. Notice what you are feeling. Are you excited by how your mind is associating? Are your emotions driving you to some clarity around your situation? Are the emerging emotions and thoughts making you uncomfortable?

The more comfortable and proficient you get at the art of journaling, the easier it becomes to use the energy created through the process. You get to cultivate this energy and you get to choose how you respond to it. You can guarantee that you are producing quality insights that give you a path to follow.

Then from the subsequent journaling around your desired goals, what actual, physical action will you take in alignment?

Forbes Coaches Council is an invitation-only community for leading business and career coaches. Do I qualify?

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Council Post: Journaling: A Powerful Tool For Your Business

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The more comfortable and proficient you get at the art of journaling, the easier it becomes to use the energy created through the process. You get to cultivate this energy and you get to choose how you respond to it.

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A quote to think about as you embark on your journey to becoming an Instructional Designer

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Reminder

* If you are an internal staff member you won't need to do these activities.

Where you see an Asterix * means that you don't need to complete this activity

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Keeping track of your achievements aligned to your performance goals.

Review the attached guide and regularly update this. This will keep you aligned with your performance goals and helps guide discussions for the mid cycle and end of year performance reviews.

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Note

Your manager and team will show you Microsoft Planner. This is how the team organises work and this tool is used to discuss each week during team meetings.

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Familiarise yourself with the team planner. You might like to add any pending tasks that you have.

As a self directed activity find out how to use team planner.

Tip - you might want to go to google, youtube or LinkedIn Learning

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How to use the NEW Microsoft Planner in Teams