LDT Portfolio Overview

Competencies, Badges and Requirements

The LDT Competencies have 4 Supra-Badges. Each Supra-Badge has several sub-badges. Each sub-badge is composed of a variety of challenges.

Professional Foundations in LDT

Supra-Badge 1

Sub-Badge 1: Design and Learning Assessment
- Challenge 1: Acquire and apply new technology skills in ID practice.
Sub-Badge 2: ID Professional Communicator
- Challenge 2: Write and edit messages that are clear, concise, and grammatically correct.
Sub-Badge 3: Ethical, Legal, and Political Implications of Design
- Challenge 3: Comply with organizational and professional codes of ethics.
Sub-Badge 4: Applying ID Research and Theory
- Challenge 4: Explain key concepts and principles in the field of Instructional Design.

Supra-Badge 2

Sub-badge 1: Gap Analysis
- Challenge 1: Conducting a gap analysis to describe the nature of a learning or performance problem and propose a potential instructional and/or non-instructional solution and strategies.
Sub-badge 2: Target Population & Environment
- Challenge 2: Determine characteristics of a target population and/or environment that may impact the design and delivery of instruction.
Sub-badge 3: Analysis Techniques for Instruction
- Challenge 3: Use appropriate techniques to analyze various types and sources to validate content.
Sub-badge 4: Analyze Technologies
- Challenge 4: Analyze the characteristics of existing and emerging technologies and their potential use.

Supra-Badge 3

Sub-badge 1: Instructional Design & Development Process
- Challenge 1: Select or create an instructional design process based on the nature of the project.
Sub-badge 2: Systematic Design
- Challenge 2: Identify and Sequence Instructional Goals.
Sub-badge 3: Design Instructional Interventions
- Challenge 3: Apply appropriate interaction design and interactive learning principles.
Sub-badge 4: Select or Modify Existing Instructional Material
- Challenge 4: Identify and select existing materials that support the content analyses proposed technologies, delivery methods, and instructional strategies.
Sub-badge 5: Develop Instructional Materials
- Challenge 5: Produce instructional materials in a variety of delivery formats.
Sub-badge 6: Design Learning Assessment
- Challenge 6: Identify the learning processes and outcomes to be measured.

Supra-Badge 4

Sub-badge 1: Evaluate Instructional and Non-Instructional Interventions:
- Challenge 1: Implement formative evaluation plans.
Sub-badge 2: Design a Plan for Dissemination & Diffusion of Instructional and/or Non-Instructional Interventions
- Challenge 2: Create a vision of change that aligns learning and performance goals with organizational goals.