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Instructional Design for ELearning

How to Create Successful Training Courses

Created byMarina Arshavskiy
IntermediateUpdated May 17, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleAnalyze learner needs and design eLearning courses using sound instructional principles.
  • check_circleCreate storyboards, prototypes, and assessment tools that align with learning goals.
  • check_circleDesign engaging interactive elements, including games, simulations, and job aids.
  • check_circleManage eLearning projects using traditional and agile methods, including mobile and Web 2.0 strategies.

About This Course

The Instructional Design for eLearning course covers the methodology, skills, and techniques necessary for developing effective eLearning solutions. This course provides the foundation for instructional development.

The course is divided into the following four sections:

  1. Basic Elements of Instructional Design
  2. Designing Instructionally Sound eLearning Courses
  3. Interactive Elements in eLearning Courses
  4. Advancing Your Skills

After completing this course, you should be able to:

  • Analyze, design, develop, implement, and evaluate your own eLearning courses
  • Use various data-collection methods and techniques to conduct needs analysis for your eLearning courses
  • Create design documents, storyboards, and prototypes
  • Develop effective assessment tools
  • Design interactivity, games, simulations, job aids, and graphics
  • Effectively collaborate with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
  • Select appropriate eLearning tools
  • Manage your eLearning projects effectively and efficiently using traditional and agile methodologies
  • Design Web2.0 and Mobile Learning solutions
  • Select appropriate performance improvement interventions
  • Create your own eLearning portfolio
  • Demonstrate knowledge, skills, and creativity related to eLearning instructional design

Who is the course for? The Instructional Design for eLearning course will be useful for instructional designers at any level and of any professional experience. Whether you are an aspiring instructional designer looking for a career change, a novice instructional designer trying to learn the basics of eLearning course development, a seasoned instructional designer needing a refresher, or a human resource professional designing professional development training programs for employees, this course is for you!

Requirements None. Just come prepared to learn!

What are you going to get from this course? Over 34 lectures and 6 hours of content! Videos, articles, and templates are included in this course! With all these materials, you will find that you are able to build professional, instructionally sound eLearning courses in a short period of time! As a bonus, there is an eBook about becoming a successful instructional designer. In this eBook, you will find information on creating your eLearning portfolio that you can use to showcase your skills to your perspective employer.

To your instructional design and eLearning success!

Course Content

4 activities • 33 videos • duration: 4h 38m

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Instructional Design Basics-Part18 videos • 1 hour
  • videocamIntroduction
    Duration 0:54
  • videocamLesson 1 Instructional Design and ELearning
    Duration 13:05
  • videocamLesson 2 Instructional Design Models
    Duration 10:43
  • videocamLesson 3 Learning Theories
    Duration 7:10
  • videocamLesson 4 Learning Styles
    Duration 7:58
  • videocamLesson 5 Motivation
    Duration 7:43
  • videocamLesson 6 Memory
    Duration 10:31
  • videocamLesson 7 Ruth Clark's Six Principles of ELearning
    Duration 3:36
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Designing Instructionally Sound ELearning Courses-Part111 videos • 1.7 hours
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Interactive ELearning-Part17 videos • 1.1 hours
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Advancing Your Instructional Design Skills-Part17 videos • 48 min

Your Instructor

Marina Arshavskiy

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Marina Arshavskiy is a professional instructional design and eLearning writer. She designs effective and highly interactive learning solutions that engage learners, heighten their experience, and accelerate skills development. Marina holds a Master's degree in Instructional Systems Development. She is also a Bronze Level certified training evaluation professional.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.3 out of 5
Student's Choice
4 reviews
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    Mark M.
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    There were 2 videos missing originally, thanks for finding them and allowing completion of the course. Overall a good course with lots of information. My feeling was that the project management section could really be shortened. Stating that good project management skills is important, and that there are lots project management training opportunities on the web. The section appeared to try to teach project management in 10 minutes, which was too superficial. Overall I'd recommend this course, and have already discussed some of the content with colleagues.

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