This programme is aimed at participants who already have a baseline competence in ETD practice.

Minimum of two years work experience as an HRD practitioner or trainer is therefore required.

The programme enables specialisation in the Learning Programme Design & Materials Development role, and may also be taken as part of a full generalist qualification at NQF Level S.

The role of Learning Programme Design & Materials Development

Anyone specialising in the role of learning programme design & learning materials development needs to be able to do several things:

• Be competent to identify the outcomes and intended impact of training on the workplace.

• Develop learning programmes of various types (learnerships, skills programmes, ABET programmes, soft-skills programmes, etc.) within the legal and regulatory requirements for various programmes.
This includes developing curricula, sequencing and scaffolding outcomes as required and developing measurement indicators.

• Collate baseline materials for the development of learning materials, draft activities and develop and lay out learner support materials for the delivery of a learning programme.

The content of the Learning Programme Design & Materials Development Module

The Learning Programme Design & Materials Development Module equips existing or prospective programme designers and materials developers with the competences to do all the above.

Participants in the programme review existing programs and materials in their organisations, as well as the requirements for these within their organisations.

They bring the results of this along to the week-long contact training.

Here they share their challenges with one another and work together in designing the programmes and developing the materials they will require to implement the programmes.

"Learning sets" - study and work groups - can be set up during the week-long session.

"Learning sets" require participants to work together when back in their organisations.

Each week of self-study and work experience participants work together to achieve particular outputs.

These outputs cumulatively lead to the development and implementation of learning programmes and learning materials within their organisations.

SECTION 1: Learning programme overview

SECTION 2: The NQF and the challenges it presents to ETD practitioners

SECTION 3: Before you start designing a learning programme

SECTION 4: Factors to be taken into consideration when designing a learning programme

SECTION 5: Designing a learning programme

SECTION 6: Developing training materials