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How to Improve Your Storyboarding Process

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

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.

Use Data and Analytics to Level Up Your Instructional Design

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 ID career in the workplace?

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

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

Answers To Instructional Design Career Questions

Instructional design career opportunities are growing all over the world. Questions and answers about breaking into instructional design.

How to unstock stock photos for elearning and slides

How to Unstock Stock Photos for eLearning and Slides

If you spend a lot of time researching photos and manipulating graphics, you may feel frustrated. Here are a few ways I’ve found to get out of the stock photo doldrums.

The Updated Accidental Instructional Designer

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.

25 Story Ideas For eLearning

There has been much written about how well people learn from stories. Here is an inspiration list of stories you can use for eLearning, culled from film and fiction writing books and websites.

How to Get Feedback from Learners to Improve Your Designs Part 2

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.

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How to Get Feedback from Learners to Improve Your Designs

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.

How to Get Started with Data-Driven 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.

Finding a Career Path in Instructional Design

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.

Creating Effective Surveys for Instructional Design

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.

Using the Jobs to Be Done Framework in Learning Design

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.

No Code Tools

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.

learning is the new business strategy as l & d leads the way

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.

Conversation Design for the Voice User Interface

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).

Set Yourself Up to Create Quality eLearning

ELC 069: Set Yourself Up to Create Quality eLearning

The quality assurance practices in the elearning industry are subpar. Hadiya Nuriddin explains how to improve the quality of your eLearning.

Applying Social Learning Theory to Learning Design

ELC 068: Applying Social Learning Theory To Learning Design

I speak with Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner about the big ideas in their book, Learning to Make a Difference. They share ways that we can live and learn intentionally in a social learning context.

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