If you are frustrated with the limited models available for instructional design, then you’ll be interested in this conversation with Cathy Moore. She is the creator of Action Mapping and author of … [Read more...]
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Persuading Clients To Accept Your Course Design
I received an email from an experienced instructional designer who had a problem that is all too common in our field. She was having trouble persuading clients to accept her course design. She … [Read more...]
Rapid eLearning Development
Are you in a situation where you don't have much time to develop an online course? Or perhaps there is no budget, but the you must produce the course anyway? As an advocate for the learner, you know … [Read more...]
Ideas For Designing Nonlinear eLearning
You probably agree that most eLearning courses are designed in a linear format. That is, users of these courses must complete one section prior to continuing to the next. In linear approaches, the … [Read more...]
Retooling Instructional Design
7 Ways Learning Professionals are Preparing for the Future
It was the subject line of an email from Elliot Masie's newsletter. That's when I first read the words, retooling instructional design. The phrase kicked my imagination into high gear. It aptly … [Read more...]
15 Instructional Design Books You Should Know About – Updated
Look no further. If you want to learn more about instructional design, eLearning and how people learn, here is an updated selection of books for you to browse. If you are already competent, there are … [Read more...]
5 Smart Questions Instructional Designers Should Ask
As a learning experience designer, it pays to keep your eye on the big picture. No one wants the headaches associated with going down the wrong path. Getting a birds-eye view of the situation can … [Read more...]
ELC 037: Applying Agile Principles To eLearning Projects
A Conversation with Megan Torrance
Agile principles call for iterative and incremental development that improves as a project advances. It's an effective way to make project corrections as requirements change. In this session, I speak … [Read more...]
Chunking Information for Instructional Design
The limited capacity of working memory is a key concept in cognitive psychology and instructional design. Working memory is a temporary memory store that regulates incoming information in order to … [Read more...]
Instructional Designers Are Content Neutral
Instructional Designers Work with Any Type of Content It's difficult for some people to understand that instructional designers can work with any type of content. If you haven't come across that … [Read more...]