You will almost always be asked to produce Design Documents for the WBT you create.

As instructional designers, you are familiar with design documents; make sure you include a navigational map and outline for the WBT, storyboards, a section detailing your resources (the available tools), your project management plans (timelines, roles, budget, and risks), and your deliverables in this report. Check out Driscoll (1998, pp. 180-189) to see a complete breakdown on WBT design documents.

And finally, if you’re going to be designing or recommending WBT (or design projects in general), you should definitely familiarize yourself with Requests for Proposals (maybe you already have?). We’re not going to go over RFP’s in this module; instead, we recommend you review sample proposals in the Web-based Training Cookbook (see pp. 131-136 & Appendix A) to further your study.

Now that you have had a brief introduction to Web-based training, including what WBT is and how it is implemented, test your knowledge in the following case study! Put yourself in the shoes of the main character, how would you recommend he handle the situation? We will be posting questions about this case periodically throughout our module...