Instructional System Design Process

Curriculum development is a shared responsibility between the Directorate of Training and the DINFOS Provost. A working group consisting of academic directors and curriculum developers from the four major training departments, as well as the Advanced Distance Learning Office and Faculty Training and Development Office, has overall responsibility for all curriculum development within DINFOS.

The curriculum developers are the technical subject matter experts for the school-wide application of the Instructional Systems Design (ISD) process, a systematic approach to training development for DINFOS training programs. This includes managing the analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation of all resident, non-resident and blended learning training. Curriculum developers work closely with academic directors to ensure that all training developed meets the requirements of the military services. For additional information on how DINFOS develops courses, please use the following link.Course Development Process

Teams from each academic department use an Instructional Systems Design (ISD) process whereby joint-service training requirements are developed into training programs for the public affairs, visual information, and maintenance career fields. This includes service-specific tracks conducted as part of a joint-service core curriculum when those tracks include predominantly knowledge-based training objectives. Resources required to support stand-alone, service-specific training requirements are the responsibility of the requiring service. For additional information regarding a specific training course, please contact the responsible department.

Curriculum Development Contacts

The staff of the Course Development Department can be reached individually via the numbers below.

The respective curriculum developer is responsible for presiding over the Training Task Selection Board (TTSB), which is the forum for mandating tasks, developed for military service training requirements and can last up to a week.  The TTSB is comprised of the participating service representatives, their field Subject Matter Experts (SME), DINFOS respective department head, academic director and SMEs.  Please click on the following link to access the proposed schedule for DINFOS course TTSBs. 2012 TTSB/IPR/Working Group Projected Schedule. Please note: The schedule does change, please call the department for confirmation before arranging to attend a TTSB.

The Training Program of Instruction (TPI) is a training plan that lists, by functional area, each unit of instruction to train all tasks identified in the approved Training Task Inventory (TTI), along with a description of training methodology and objectives for all tasks.  Please use the link below to access all of DINFOS TPI's. View Training Programs of Instruction