Mobile
I’m happy to announce that Instructional Design Guru, my new reference and...
In an ongoing exploration of how to design and develop for mobile learning, I plan...
For quite a while now, I’ve been poring over mobile design books, listening...
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Reviews
Even if you’re not a learning geek, leafing through the pages of Design For...
There are so many online services, platforms, applications and tools, it can be difficult...
Clive Shepherd’s latest book, The New Learning Architect, starts out where...
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eLearning Design
Even though a crucial part of our jobs involve design, the prevailing instructional design models are based on systems thinking. Systems thinking promotes an analytical or engineering type of mindset. But we also need an approach to help us synthesize, innovate and create. In many design fields today, people who are required to create on demand use...
When I started counting the types of writing that are potentially required to produce an online course, I was stunned. I realized that one instructional designer can potentially provide the skills of an entire writing department. Read More →
Your brain likes to generalize. It makes generalizations out of individual examples, similar to fitting together the pieces of a puzzle. This is more or less how concepts are formed—by grouping together things, ideas and events with shared characteristics so you can classify them. It’s an efficient way to give meaning to your world. As a youngster,...
A reader recently emailed and asked, “What does an instructional designer do?” Read More →
Short of performing a science fiction mind-meld, how can you efficiently transfer content from the brain of a subject matter expert (SME) into a form you can use? Read More →
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