This course is geared toward instructional designers, course developers, and e-learning professionals who want to get a better handle on their projects. Content includes an overview of project management, initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and closing an instructional project whether it’s an entire course or just a focused portion of it.

At the end of this course, the students will be able to:

• Define the differences between instructional design and project management.
• Discuss the benefits of using Project Management principles.
• Define a “project” and its three requirements.
• Identify skills that a project manager needs to be successful.
• Identify a generic project life cycle.
• Identify the five process groups of project management.
• Define project initiation and the two outputs of the process.
• Discuss the project charter.
• Discuss who stakeholders can be and how to identify them.
• Identify different ways to classify stakeholders.
• Define project planning and its related terms: scope, objectives, outcomes, milestones, and work breakdown structure.
• Identify scope creep and explain how to prevent it.
• Identify the sections and components of a project plan.
• Describe the functions and advantages of using a WBS.
• Describe the purpose of a kick-off meeting.
• List and describe five ways to manage and direct the project work during execution.
• Discuss how to manage change.
• Define and give examples of OPAs.
• Discuss how and why lessons learned are gathered.
• Differentiate between crashing and fast-tracking a project.
• Discuss why political and cultural awareness is important in project communications.
• Describe the differences between quality control and scope validation.
• List at least three things that happen during project closure.
• Discuss gathering & processing lessons learned.
• Describe the difference between closing the project and reviewing the project.
• Describe the purpose of a project implementation review.

Who this course is for:
Instructional designers who want to be more organized and efficient in their projects.