ID Brief for interactive eLearning - IST526

Introduction to Case Management for New Hirees in the Sped Department

General Overview/Need:
New staff in the Special Education department in my organization need training in case
management. Case management is crucial to the proper development of Individualized
Education Programs (IEP) for students with special needs. This module will ensure new Sped
hirees get familiar with case management. The module will be a key component for my
capstone project: SIRAS Training.

Target audience:
The audience will be new hirees at the Sped department of my organization. The department
includes speech language pathologists, psychologist, special day classes, and resource
specialists. Basic technology skills are needed to complete this training. This module will refresh
the learner on case management or will provide the necessary knowledge to accomplish this in
the event the new hiree do not have previous knowledge on this area.

Learning objectives:
At the end of this module learners will be able to:
Identify the the seven phases for case management.
Prepare and apply a plan for a client.
Remember each phase and its definition.
Memorize why case management is important.
Employ case management effectively.
Task Analysis:
1. Review of each phase of Case Management to emphasize why its definition.
a. Definition for each of the seven phases of Case Management.
2. Properly carry on with a client's case following the seven steps of Case Management.
a. Engagement
b. Assessment
c. Planning
d. Implementation
e. Monitoring
f. Review
g. Closure

Assessment:
The assessments will be presented to the student after each section. Each section will be
represented by each objective. There will be a total of two objectives. The first assessment will
consist of an activity where the learner has to arrange the steps for case management. The
second one an activity about best practices to prepare and apply a plan for a client.

Instructional Strategies:
The ARCS model will be used for this short interactive e-Learning assignment. Attention,
Relevance, Confidence, and satisfaction. The model will be incorporated along with other
theories.

Cognitivism, the learner will be presented with the necessary information to be able to acquire
the knowledge to complete the assessments delivered after each objective section without
overloading their cognitive memory.

Media Resources:
According to Evidence-Based Practice, eLearning courses should incorporate instructional
methods that have been shown to be effective based on high quality research. This eLearning
course looks to close the gap on IEPs being submitted as non-compliant due to low case
management skills, by provided well-founded information to case management best practices.

The course will follow coherence principles, which states that you should avoid adding any
material that does not support the instructional goal. The principles it will be suing are:
Avoid e-Lessons with extraneous audio

Avoid e-Lessons with extraneous graphics

Avoid e-Lessons with extraneous words

This principle will be applied based on the understanding of how my learners learn rather than a
blind application of rules.