Instructional Development Process

A successful instructional design project requires evaluation and planning to establish accurate learning needs, and assure the end result meets those needs.

A proven four-step, collaborative process consisting of discovery, design, development and evaluation ensures learning objectives are met in accordance to learning needs.

Discovery
Discovery determines the most appropriate intervention for an identified performance, knowledge, or communication problem. Its goal is to identify, define, document, and approve the critical requirements to meet for project success.

Design
Design explodes the approved project requirements by using in-depth analysis and extensive data collection to verify, and in some instances modify, the project's size and scope. Design clarifies the audience and the desired performance outcomes, maps the approach to take to achieve the desired results, fully defines time, cost, and scope parameters, and prototypes the final solution to build for client approval.

Development
Development produces the desired performance, knowledge, or communication program. Its goal is to work with the discovery and design specifications to produce the specified product within the time, cost, and scope parameters agreed upon as a result of the project proposal. A key part of the development process is the collaboration between the client and the developer to create, review, and approve the final product.

Evaluation
Evaluation tests and verifies that the final product achieves the desired outcome when used by the target audience. The goal of evaluation is to verify that the client is satisfied with the outcome, to report on the ability of the program to achieve its objectives, and to implement the program for use by the full target audience.