The MICC will include a number of on-site workshops. Students are expected to do a significant amount of work outside of class. The class will be broken into two teams with a team facilitator assigned to each team. Students will be responsible for providing work products and monthly reports to the team facilitator who will review the student's products and provide appropriate feedback. Currently one MICC Course is conducted each year with approximately twenty students in each class. The 2012 class will begin in January with a two-day on-site orientation and training needs assessment workshop.

• The MICC Instructional Systems Design Model (MICC ISD) applied to their validated training need
• A total Training Package that includes lesson plans, appropriate instructional support material and a Course Certification Package

Ideally the potential MICC Candidate has already conceptualized their individual learning project when they made a decision to enroll in this program. If they have not they are advised to talk with anyone who is value-added to get clear in their mind what would be a solid learning project for them personally. If they have not made that decision at registration they would be expected to enter into a dialog with past Master Instructors and finally with the lead Team Facilitator to finalize their learning project prior to arrival at the Orientation/TNA Workshop. This learning project AKA: a 24-hour course, will be required to be approved in concept by POST prior to formally beginning the ISD process. The project must clearly meet what is believed to be demonstrated training need.

This intial step of the MICC process is formally called a training needs assessment (TNA). It begins with the conceptualization and approval of a meaningful project that POST approves. Once their concept for a project is approved the student then begins the formal TNA process. The TNA will include an electronic survey of potential clients and persons whose area of expertise (AOE) meets that of the subject matter. Through surveys, personal research and personal interviews the student will gather appropriate data to enable them to prepare a complete needs assessment document in a provided format that supports or invalidates the need for the training. If the training cannot be adequately supported and is not seen as being needed by the field, this is the point where further design work would be terminated and a new training need would be identified and taken through the above process. If the need is validated then the student is directed to continue their design and development work. The principle of this process is simple and is the foundation of the Instructional Systems Design process; all training design and development begins with a training need that has been formally validated using the best available resources.

It must be understood that any work done once a candidate is registered for MICC can be extremely beneficial and should be a priority whenever possible. This is a very challenging course and there is significant work to be done throughout the course. There is no make work- this is focused activity and based on sound design and development training philosophies that you will be learning during Level 4. Learning the ISD process is the priority- your course is the vehicle to demonstrate that you learned the process. As you are expecting feedback from individuals and conducting interviews it should be apparent the TNA does take time and this timeline can be greatly reduced by any and all work the learner does on the front-end prior to arrival at the Orientation/TNA Workshop. There will also be significant, focused TNA work to be done between this workshop and the Core Course. Written guidance will be provided to assist the candidate to understand the requirements and successfully complete as much pre-Core Course work as their schedule will permit. This is important enough to repeat- any work accomplished prior to either the Orienttaion/TNA Workshop or Core Course will be extremely beneficial. While it is possible to be successful in this program without doing significant work prior to the Orientation/TNA Workshop- having an approved concept remains a requirement for the workshop. As MICC Candidates you must make a decision and have your concept in the POST approval channels prior to the Orientation/TNA Workshop. The work done during that workshop will be focused on a TNA for YOUR approved course. The MICC Staff and POST Management will do everything possible to expedite the approval process to include providing exemplars and providing individual guidance. However, in this first step the responsibility for concept paper submission is clearly on the candidate.