Instructional Design For Journalists And Reporters

Reporting skills for Journalists and Reporters

What you'll learn
Using design in their journalistic communication
Using Story telling to capture viewers attention
Writing or speaking reports to engage viewers
Requirements
Basic idea of News reporting
Description
This course is aimed at journalists and reporters who wish to improve their reporting skills and language. This focuses on scientific instructional design principles to train and coach Journalists in reporting events and documentaries. The course includes topics on Media and communication, writing for news, reporting skills, event profiling, communication design, storytelling, viewer/reader experience, English for reporters and others which are critical to excel in journalism.Journalism in modern times has gone beyond just reporting news, Journalists today are into varied activities including investigations, activism, social lobbying, knowledge building and dissemination, demystifying complex issues and teaching the public about standards of various social, technological and environmental issues.A journalist requires multiple skills today to be effective in these vastly varied and demanding roles. The journalist needs to acquire customer-centric perspectives and communication abilities to be able to fulfil his or her constituencies of audiences. The journalist today is the centre of many events and happenings bringing the full impact to his or her audience. More and more, the skills of journalism are embracing the creative domains and need to be looked upon as design projects. The journalist should creatively include elements of design into his or her communication which could take the form of written reports, videos, interviews, panel discussions and many more different forms of communication.This course is designed to provide these skills to the journalists from the perspective of Instructional Design, which gives them a comprehensive insight into the discipline of learning and knowledge design.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Instructional Design for Journalists Overview

Lecture 3 Instructional Design for Journalists

Section 2: Role of a Journalist

Lecture 4 Role of a Journalist-Changes over periods

Lecture 5 Dimensions of the role of a Journalist

Lecture 6 Journalism as a teaching profession

Lecture 7 Teaching Skills for the Journalists

Section 3: Instructional Design Basics

Lecture 8 What is Instructional Design?

Lecture 9 Instructional Design for Journalists Introduction

Lecture 10 Cognition as a foundation for Instructional Design

Lecture 11 Cognitive Principles in Instructional Design

Section 4: Learning Theories for Instructional Design

Lecture 12 Learning Theories for Instructional Design

Lecture 13 Learning Theories for Journalists

Section 5: Knowledge Building and Activation in Journalism

Lecture 14 Importance of Learning Activation in Journalism

Lecture 15 Process of Activation of Knowledge in Audience

Lecture 16 Knowledge Building to gain Credibility

Lecture 17 Knowledge Building Process

Section 6: Knowledge Building Tools for Journalists

Lecture 18 Analysing the Audience to design the communication

Lecture 19 Audience Analysis for designing communication

Lecture 20 Using ARCS Model to structure presentations

Lecture 21 Story Telling as a Knowledge Building Tool

Lecture 22 The Story Telling Process and Instructional Design

Journalists, reporters, students wanting to make journalism a career