Objective 6:
Engage in and reflect upon one’s own professional development, dispositions, and growth in the discipline.
Although my Capstone Project shows the synthesis of multiple competencies in the design and development of a training course on self-reflection skills for professional development, it was an excellent opportunity to reflect on my progress towards mastery of key objectives.
What happened?
For this project, I selected a learning problem to explore through the lens of instructional design and educational technology. Based on my research topic in the Inquiry course, and thinking about the subjects and skills I have not yet had the chance to explore, I chose to propose a solution for providing junior or transitioning workers in digital/remote workplaces with training to support informal learning awareness as well as support development of self-regulated learning skills.
I challenged myself to learn more about using AI while developing this course. I used Anthropic’s Claude 4.6 Sonnet to produce and refine a small Javascript form that would capture user input about a workplace learning experience, then format the text for pasting into a document- or spreadsheet-based Learning Log.
I planned the flow of course activities in Lucidchart so my peers and stakeholders could see where my design aligned with the course modules and planned activities.
Why does it matter?
This project fully meets requirements for Objective 6, because I needed to reflect on the skills I had truly mastered and which I had only explored. Further, I had to decide which aspects of the instructional design profession were most important to me as an instructional designer. In our final class discussion, we agreed as a group that this project naturally guided us to synthesizing many elements of the different LDT courses and reflecting on how we could finally use our new skills to produce something tangible and meaningful to us. For myself, I see the development process behind this project as equally influential in my professional growth; not every stakeholder will share your objectives, much less your vision, and it is deeply important to work through that conflict directly and productively.