For the past month or so, I’ve been discussing the five main phases of Instructional Design. Now it’s time to talk about the implementation phase!
The goal of implementation is to get the training you developed to its intended audience. Or deliver the training. Essentially, you’re pressing the Power ON button for your course! There are several elements that might come into play along the way, but it’s all in the name of implementation. Some of these elements might include:
- Training faculty members or facilitators in the technology
- Making a course ‘go live’ for the audience
- Creating job aids and course documentation
- Installing the courseware on a client’s server
- Testing courseware in the intended environment
However you or your organization chooses to deal with implementation, the goal is always the same – get the training to the audience!
For some, the implementation phase might be the end of the road in terms of instructional design processes; however, for many (should be for all), there is one more critical phase: Evaluation. Stay tuned next week for my thoughts on evaluation and its importance in Instructional Design.
Good write-up! If we’re talking about implementation, I really wish more places would implement newer LMS’ in place of Moodle – I haven’t been hearing good opinions about it lately, and most places won’t try any plugins, which actually do help.