Professional Competencies
Purdue’s Learning Design and Technology program assesses skills through a competency portfolio: 4 supra-badges made up of 20 challenges. For each challenge, I share an artifact from my coursework or practice and a reflection on how it shows the skill. Sections fill in as I complete each badge.
Supra-Badge 1: Professional Foundations in LDT
The groundwork of the profession: communicating clearly, applying instructional design research and theory, growing my own skills, and designing ethically within legal and organisational limits.
2 of 5 challenges complete
Supra-badge reflection
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ID Professional Communicator
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Applying ID Research and Theory
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Supra-Badge 2: Planning and Analysis
Understanding a problem before designing for it: analysing performance gaps, learners and their environment, prerequisite skills, content sources, and the technologies that could deliver instruction.
0 of 5 challenges complete
Supra-badge reflection
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Gap Analysis
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Target Population and Environment
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Analysis Techniques for Instruction
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Analyze Technologies
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Supra-Badge 3: Design and Development
Turning analysis into instruction: choosing a design process, sequencing goals and outcomes, selecting strategies and materials, building those materials, and aligning assessment with what learners should achieve.
0 of 7 challenges complete
Supra-badge reflection
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Instructional Design and Development Process
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Systematic Design
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Design Instructional Interventions
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Select or Modify Existing Instructional Materials
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Develop Instructional Materials
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Design Learning Assessment
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Supra-Badge 4: Evaluation and Implementation
Finding out whether instruction works and helping it take root: running formative and summative evaluations, and planning how an intervention is shared and adopted across an organisation.
0 of 3 challenges complete
Supra-badge reflection
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Evaluate Instructional and Non-Instructional Interventions
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Design a Plan for Dissemination and Diffusion
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