There are four core design components that underlie everything you will do with VISION.
The design components, represented at each level of the pyramid, give some idea of the process by which you, the user, will design training systems with VISION Developer.
Job Analysis, Objectives/Test Items, and Program (Lessons)
First, you’ll develop a performance-based data foundation including the establishment of performance requirements (job/tasks), training objectives, test items and a curriculum structure. The results of these activities are visually reflected in the user interface. The data elements are linked together to provide a "road map" from job requirements to the corresponding objectives, test questions, and lessons.
Learning Objects (Content)
When you develop content, you’ll do it at the objective level, not the lesson level. After content is developed for an objective, the objective is considered an independent learning object. Your objective content may include several instructional components that make up the learning object as a whole. Since content exists within the objective, it can be easily found, moved and shared.
Instructional Strategy
When you develop an objective in VISION, you will have the option of classifying it according to the type of content it represents. Once you do, VISION will assign a template or design strategy to that objective. The strategy will help you develop the content for the objective so that it is based on an appropriate scope and the way people learn. Instructional advice will be available to assist you in developing the material in a consistent, proper manner.
Media Forms
Forms that interact with the content as in a template will determine how the content for objectives will be arranged in a particular medium. Remember, in VISION content is separate from format. This way, the same content can be applied to a variety of media to produce various products. So, you won’t really be concerned with margins, tabs, headers and footers of a lesson guide. All of that will be determined by a template that is assigned to the content once you select the kind of outcome you wish to produce.
In summary, remember the four components:
1.Performance-based foundation
2.Content at the objective level
3.Use of instructional strategies for each objective
4.Separation of content from media though the use of templates
