How can you continually improve the learning experiences you design? Pull these levers a bit more with every new effort.
Starting a Learning Design Team
With enough planning, your organization can build an instructional design team. Here are the roles and responsibilities to consider.
10 Ways To Protect Yourself From Client Issues
You never know when it’s going to hit the fan. Take these steps to avoid trouble.
10 Lesser Known Free Or Inexpensive Stock Photo Sites
Stock Photos for Instructional Design
Many of us must work on projects with small budgets that require free resources. Fortunately, free or inexpensive stock media sites can save the day. Check out descriptions of these ten sites.
How Long Does it Take to Develop eLearning?
Resources for Estimating Training Development Time
How long does it take to develop online learning? These resources will help.
Alternatives to Correct and Incorrect
Eight approaches to providing learning feedback
Eight options for providing feedback that is informative, motivating and corrects misconceptions, moving the learner forward.
Finding Your Place In an Instructional Design Career
Instructional Design Career Paths
There are many opportunities to forge a fulfilling instructional design career path. Take a look at these diverse options.
10 Ways To Organize Instructional Content
Instructional designers need to know how to organize content for learning. A sound structure helps learners retain and retrieve information.
The World Needs More Checklists
Using Checklists for Performance Support
The checklist is one of the most brilliant cognitive aids around. Hidden in this simple format is an ingenious type of performance support.
Using Illustrated Characters In eLearning
Characters can add a creative boost to your repertoire of eLearning treatments.
eLearning For Soft Skills: What works?
How important is it to distinguish between designing for hard skills and soft skills training? Many researchers think that it’s critical. The strategies needed to transfer hard skills, such as technical and procedural knowledge, can be quite different than the knowledge needed to develop soft skills, which involve interpersonal and intrapersonal (occurring within the self) […]
The Instructional Design Life
Today I remembered the hazards, joys and oddities of the life of an instructional designer.