Instructional Designer Competencies
What does an instructional designer do?
Instructional designers prepare courses and other learning materials. They analyze the needs for the materials, then plan and develop those materials to address the needs.
Who benefits from the instructional designer competencies?
People who employ or work as instructional designers—professionals who plan curricula and design learning experiences and materials.
These competencies also benefit programs that prepare people for careers in the field, such as programs in Educational Technology, Learning Sciences, and Human Resource Development.
The IBSTPI competencies address the many roles that instructional designers play, including researcher, instructor, writer, project manager, media and web developer, evaluator, asset manager, strategic and learning consultant, performance analyst, and project manager.
What’s in the Competencies?
Each IBSTPI competency model represents a hierarchy of competence, including:
- Domain—Broad areas of competence required for a position
- Competencies—Specific areas of competence within a domain
- Performance statements—Underlying skills needed for each competency
The most current version of these Competencies reflects the changing way that instructional designers work, including:
- The influence of advanced technologies, team-based design, and business management skills
- A categorization of competencies as Essential or Advanced
- And of course, the professional foundations of design, planning and analysis, design and development, implementation evaluation, and project management skills
Date:
2012. Builds on the first set of competencies, produced in 1986 (the first-ever set of competencies for instructional designers) and a 2000 update.
How you can trust these competencies
These IBSTPI competencies were validated globally. The participants in this validation included a larger validation than earlier versions, and instructional designers working in a variety of industries and employment situations.
