Describes an in-house instructional development process designed to enhance curriculum documentation. Highlights include front end analysis; establishing a Curriculum Review Advisory Board that includes an instructional systems designer, management personnel, and subject matter experts; use of the objective worksheet; use of the lesson plan form;…

Discusses the need for training curriculum to be integrated with business objectives to provide the right employees with the right skills at the right time. Line management requirements are described; training and development requirements are examined; the training and development organization is described; and keys to success are considered. (LRW)

Describes a curriculum development effort at Marymount University (Virginia) that combined a traditional human resource development (HRD) master's degree program with instructional systems design (ISD) and performance technology concepts. Courses in the program are described, with special emphasis given to one on performance improvement…