Instructional Designer Mock Interview
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Have you ever created more than one prototype when designing a course? Why or why not?
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Maria Cheryl Harkins is a Talent Development Consultant with over a decade of experience in sourcing, qualifying, interviewing, testing, onboarding, and training.
There are two aspects that the interviewer is gauging with this question. One is whether you are flexible if the company has required Instructional Designers to create more than one prototype before. The interviewer also wants to learn if you see the value in creating multiple prototypes, which indicates that you can leverage data to determine the best outcomes. Whether or not you have created multiple prototypes for a course, or if you were even empowered to do so, be sure to talk about its advantages and disadvantages.
Maria Cheryl Harkins is a Talent Development Consultant with over a decade of experience in sourcing, qualifying, interviewing, testing, onboarding, and training.
"I've never experienced creating more than one prototype for a course. That is simply because of my bandwidth limitations at work and not because I don't see its value. In fact, I'm a big fan of A/B testing when it comes to training components. For example, I would create two quizzes for the same module and have our training facilitators try both. We then go over the questions and answers together to compare what worked and what didn't. From there, we decide what to keep and what to remove. Overall, I'm not opposed to creating more than one prototype if time and budget allow it, and if we set quantifiable objectives for prototyping."
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