Collaborative Learning Strategies
What is collaborative learning? Simply put, collaborative learning strategies are instructional methods that encourage learners to work together to achieve shared goals. It’s not just…
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Instructional design
At Instructional Design Australia (IDA), we offer a comprehensive and flexible instructional design consulting service. We build learning solutions to meet business objectives and learning needs.
We believe in transforming learning experiences. Merging innovative design with deep-rooted learning principles, we craft solutions that engage, inspire and drive real-world application.
Embracing varied learning pathways, we craft courses for face-to-face, eLearning, virtual, and blended delivery, ensuring accessible and tailored learning experiences that respect diverse learning styles and logistical needs across multiple contexts.
Instructional design courses
We offer self-paced instructional design courses to help you craft impactful learning experiences with the support of templates, guides and personalised coaching.
Developed by our team of instructional design experts, our programs offer key insights and practical tools to build exceptional learning design skills.
Dive in with us!
- Study flexibly – time, place and duration
- Discover best practice
- Receive the practical tools you need
- Practice as you learn
- Benefit from personalised coaching
Instructional design courses
Our services
Graphic design
Visual designs enhancing content clarity, engagement, and comprehension.
Learning design
Programs structured and tailored to meet learning needs and optimise retention.
Podcast production
Rich auditory content to immerse learners in topical discussions and insights.
Gamification
Using game elements to boost engagement, motivation and enjoyable learning.
UX and UI
Ensuring user-friendly, intuitive, and accessible design for all learning platforms.
Our solutions transform engage inspire motivate resonate challenge
Our experience across learning domains
- Leadership development: Face-to-face and eLearning modules on team dynamics, strategic vision, and motivational techniques.
- Project management: Methodologies, team management, and risk assessment.
- Business planning: Stages of business strategy, execution, and monitoring progress.
- Leading through challenging times: Common types of business crises, and how to prevent, prepare, respond and recover from a crisis.
- Feedback strategies for continuous improvement: Uncover how to effectively provide feedback and respond appropriately to difficult reactions.
- Managing your remote team: Smoothly transition to remote work and maintain engagement, productivity and connection. Strategies to create a healthy work-from-home environment and practices to support your wellbeing.
- Customer service excellence: Effective communication, problem-solving and customer retention strategies.
- Emotional intelligence: Improve your self-awareness, self-regulation, self-motivation, empathy and social skills.
- Diversity and inclusion: Cultural competence, unconscious bias and fostering inclusive environments.
- Self-help and personal growth: Personal development courses on resilience, stress management, and goal setting.
- Conflict resolution: Common causes of conflict in the workplace and typical reactions. Skills to resolve conflict effectively and respond appropriately to frustrated or angry employees.
- Recognising and overcoming bias: Science behind unconscious bias, the impacts of bias and techniques to challenge and overcome them—reducing their harmful effects.
- Company inductions: Onboarding programs for new hires.
- Procedural changes: Updates and refreshers on company-specific procedures.
- Systems training: Detailed tutorials on company software, tools or platforms.
- Electrical power supplies: Courses on basics, safety, and troubleshooting.
- Work Health and Safety (WHS)/Occupational Health and Safety (OHS): Mandatory modules on workplace safety and precautions.
- EEO/Workplace behaviour training: Ensuring equal employment opportunities and promoting respectful workplace conduct.
- Conflict of interest training: Identification and management of potential conflicts in professional settings.
- Privacy: Best practices and legal requirements around data protection and confidentiality.
- Fraud and corruption: Recognition and prevention of unscrupulous activities in the workplace.
- Incident response: Scenario-based training on emergency responses and safety protocols.
- Biodiversity training: Local flora and fauna, conservation strategies and environmental impact.
- Marine life care and rescue: Marine biology, rescue techniques and conservation.
- Beekeeping: How to keep your own bees, make your own honey and save the bees.
- When to go to HR, and when not to: Understand the role of human resources and determine when it’s appropriate to approach HR with a question or issue.
- Interview strategies for successful hiring: Plan and conduct great job interviews that avoid discrimination and bias.
- Youth work: Guidance on mentoring, counselling, and youth-centric programs.
- Managing challenging behaviour: Tools and strategies for handling difficult situations.
- Trauma-related training: Understanding trauma, its impact, and support strategies.
- Supported decision-making: Courses on promoting autonomy and informed choices in vulnerable populations.
- Financial literacy: Understanding money management, budgeting, investing, and financial decision-making essentials (Cert I course designed for high school students, harnessing gamified learning).
- Job seeking and career building: Resume building, interview techniques, and job market insights.
Our experience across industries
- Graduate Certificate in Railway Signalling Systems
- Graduate Diploma in Railway Signalling Systems
- Certificate IV in Leadership and Management
- Certificate IV in Rail Network Control
- Certificate IV in Engineering (Electrical)
- Certificate IV in Leadership and Management
- Certificate III in Rail Customer Service
- Certificate III in Engineering – Mechanical Trade
- Certificate III in Terminal Train Driving
- Managing Ill Passengers
- Rail Corridor Construction – supporting collaboration between Work Group Supervisors and Engineers
- Train Track Safety Awareness (accredited course – unit of competency: Safely access the rail corridor)
- Lookout (accredited course – unit of competency: Perform lookout duties)
- Handsignaller (accredited course – unit of competency: Perform handsignaller duties)
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Track Force Protection Coordinator 3.1 (accredited course – units of competency: Conduct track protection assessment; Operate under track protection rules)
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Track Force Protection Coordinator 3.2 (accredited course – units of competency: Pilot rail traffic within work on track authority limits; Implement a track occupancy authority; Implement a local possession authority; Implement a track work authority and manage rail traffic through worksites; Clip and secure points)
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Track Force Protection Coordinator 3.3 (accredited course – units of competency: Plan and coordinate protection for multiple worksites within limits of a work on track authority)
- Training materials for Leadership and Transformation: Retail Banking, Asia Pacific
- Product change learning design: Personal Loans, Credit Cards, Merchant Services, Credit Risk
- Contact tracing
- Accessibility of health services to people with disabilities
- Smoking cessation
- Pilates
- Mindfulness and meditation
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
- Age-related macular degeneration & diabetic eye disease
- Training design and development: ‘Tourism Excellence’ suite of workshops
- SAP reporting
- Analytical reporting
- Induction for corrections facilities
- Training materials and change management for client and operator systems
- Storyboarding to translate an existing face-to-face outplacement program for an eLearning platform
- New leadership program development and assessments
- eLearning Programs
- Training materials development for Diploma of Tourism (AQTF compliant)
- Training design of member workshops: Grow Me The Money; Carbon Down
- Training design of public workshops: Effective Sales, Time Management, Customer Service
- Learning Design: Salesforce Optimisation – Onboarding
- Learning design: Business Acumen for Sales Professionals
- Sales planning
- Learning design: Advanced Selling Skills
- Towing operations
Our experience in accredited training
At Instructional Design Australia, we pride ourselves on our extensive experience in accredited training. Over the years, we’ve collaborated with industry experts, educational institutions and RTOs of all sizes to design and develop accredited courses that not only meet stringent educational standards but also provide real-world relevance.
Our proficiency ensures that learners receive a rigorous, high-quality education that equips them with recognised qualifications and skills.
Below, explore the array of nationally recognised qualifications we’ve created, or click here for a comprehensive list.
Accredited courses:
- TLI42215 Certificate IV in Rail Network Operations
- MEM40105 Certificate IV in Engineering (Electrical)
- BSB42015 Certificate IV in Leadership and Management
- TLI33118 Certificate III in Rail Customer Service
- MEM30205 Certificate III in Engineering – Mechanical Trade
- TLI33213 Certificate III in Terminal Train Driving
- 22326VIC Graduate Certificate in Railway Signalling Systems
- 22327VIC Graduate Diploma of Railway Signalling Systems
- FNS10115 Certificate I in Financial Services
eCompliance Training
eCompliance Training offers a number of online compliance courses and related services, including:
- Equal Employment Opportunity, Anti-Bullying, Harassment and Discrimination Training
- Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) Essentials Training
- Workplace Information Privacy Essential Obligations Training
Our Instructional Design Courses and Templates
We also offer instructional design training courses which include:
- Instructional Design – Basics
- Instructional Design – PLUS
- Instructional Design for your Organisation
Our templates are included in the courses above, however, they can also be purchased separately:
Our clients
Our approach to effective learning design
Our approach to effective learning design
Our instructional design and learning design process involves working with clients to determine key business objectives that inform the end goal of learning programs. We explore how these targets impact current skills, knowledge and behaviours, and then create learning experiences that propel learners towards achieving business targets.
Central to our approach is the ADDIE model, ensuring a systematic and iterative design process through its Analyse, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate phases.
We use a variety of adult learning theories in learning design. Our approach is driven by the concept of inquiry-based discovery learning, which encourages learners to leverage prior knowledge, cultivates curiosity and fosters critical thinking and experimentation.
To maximise learner engagement and transfer of learning, we design programs that offer both formal and informal learning opportunities.
Learning methodologies and activities examples we use
Action planning
Setting specific steps to achieve learning goals, ensuring progress and accountability.
Appreciative inquiry
Focusing on strengths to empower and foster positive growth in learners.
Brainstorming
Encouraging free-thinking and creativity to generate diverse ideas.
Case studies
Analysing real-world or real-to-life scenarios to apply theoretical knowledge practically.
Coaching, mentoring and buddying
One-on-one guidance, fostering personal growth and skill development.
Constructive feedback
Offering specific advice for improvement, enhancing performance and understanding.
Critical incident analysis
Reflecting on significant events to learn and adapt for future situations.
Critical reflection
Examining personal experiences and beliefs, promoting deeper understanding and encouraging growth.
Debates
Engaging in structured arguments to develop critical thinking and perspective-taking.
Guided discussions
Facilitated conversations that deepen understanding and explore varied viewpoints.
Knowledge checks and quizzes
Assessing understanding and retention, and identifying areas for improvement.
Multimedia (videos, podcasts, infographics)
Engaging visual and audio content; enhancing retention and catering to different learning styles.
Self-paced extension activities
Providing flexibility for learners to delve deeper at their own pace.
Shared learning
Collaborative knowledge exchange, enhancing understanding through peer perspectives.
Simulations
Immersive scenarios that allow practice and decision-making in a controlled environment.
Site visits
Experiencing real-world settings to enhance contextual understanding and practical application.
Skills practice
Engaging in hands-on activities to hone specific skills through application and improve proficiency.
Storytelling
Conveying information through narratives, making learning relatable and memorable.
Contact us
Instructional Design Australia (IDA) provides services to support workplace learning and change. With team members in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth, IDA will enable your people to engage, learn and perform.
Contact Details
Office
E: info@discoverlearning.com.au
Ph: 1300 528 736
Michael Peart
E: michael@discoverlearning.com.au
Ph: 0434 075 231
Bianca Schimizzi
E: bianca@discoverlearning.com.au
Ph: 0416 013 623
For all your Workplace Learning, Instructional Design and Learning Design needs in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane and Canberra call 1300 528 736 or make an online enquiry today.