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Models For Designing Your Personal Learning Environment
This is the perfect time for a personal learning environment refresh. Use one of these models to refresh your self-directed learning strategy.
10 Types Of Writing For eLearning
Best practices and tips for the diverse types of writing instructional designers do, including varied types of eLearning scripts.
ELC 081: Focusing On Behavior Change in Instructional Design
If you don’t have the right strategy or tool to solve a problem, consider looking at ways to affect behavior change. In this episode, Julie Dirksen explains how to apply a behavior change model to instructional design.
How to Improve Your Storyboarding Process (and stop complaining)
If you want to create well-designed and thoughtfully planned eLearning that builds complex skills, then relying on the storyboard process is your best bet.
How to Reduce Friction in eLearning
As learning designers, what do we do to reduce friction? Here are some ways to reduce user friction in eLearning.
ELC 080: Use Data and Analytics to Level Up Your Instructional Design
Using data and analytics for instructional design may seem difficult. But Megan Torrance explains it in simple terms. Listen in to level up your ID skills.
What Should You Learn for an Instructional Design Career in the Workplace?
Instructional design is a multidisciplinary field. Here are the necessary skills and knowledge and the areas where you can choose your path.
How To Avoid Instructional Design Project Failure
Learn how to avoid instructional design project failure. Robyn Defelice gives her best advice for instructional design teams.
Answers To Instructional Design Career Questions
Instructional design career opportunities are growing all over the world. Questions and answers about breaking into instructional design.
Podcasts
ELC 079: The Updated Accidental Instructional Designer
The Accidental Instructional Designer has a second edition! Author Cammy Bean provides the big picture view of the learning and development industry.
ELC 078: How to Get Feedback from Learners to Improve Your Designs Part 2
Usability of learning designs should include ease of use as well as instructional effectiveness. In this episode, we discuss many aspects of usability.
ELC 077: How to Get Feedback from Learners to Improve Your Designs Part 1
In this episode, two researchers discuss how LXD adopts and adapts methods to improve the usability and outcomes of learning design.
ELC 076: How to Get Started with Data-Driven Learning Design
What about gathering audience data before you start to design? Lori Niles-Hofmann explains how.
ELC 075 Finding a Career Path in Instructional Design
In this solo episode, I talk about the diversity of career paths in instructional design for people who are trying to break into the field.
ELC 074: Creating Effective Surveys for Instructional Design
When you create surveys for instructional design do you use a process that will get the most accurate results? In this episode, I explore survey design with forms specialist, Caroline Jarrett.
ELC 073: Using The Jobs To Be Done Framework In Learning Design
Jobs To Be Done can help you address the functional, emotional and social aspects of learning.
ELC 072: The Wonderful World of No Code Tools
In this episode, we’re exploring the wonderful world of no code tools. These are powerful apps that you can use without programming.
ELC 071: Learning is the New Business Strategy
We’re living in a time of exploding change and disruption. I speak with Brandon Carson who shows how Learning and Development can lead the way through the digital age where learning is the new business strategy.
ELC 070: Conversation Design for the Voice User Interface
A future skill for instructional designers is designing for voice controls. I speak with Myra Roldan about conversation design for the voice user interface (VUI).