One aspect of a portfolio that can make yours stand out is to provide the proper context for every work sample. You can achieve this by adding instructional design case studies to your portfolio. Case … [Read more...]
How To Be More Creative At Work
For Learning Experience Designers
If you continuously come up with compelling and novel ideas at a moment's notice, you won't need to read this article. But for the rest of us, there are times when it's difficult to be creative on … [Read more...]
10 Books Of Visual Ideas (from 2006 to 2012)
Explanatory, Information and Data Visualization Graphics
When the importance of visualization became popularized, an explosion of books were published for those who were hungry to understand and appreciate this graphic format. It was an obvious win for … [Read more...]
ELC 072: The Wonderful World of No Code Tools
A conversation with Mike Taylor and Mathias Vermeulen
In this episode, we’re exploring the wonderful world of no code tools. These are powerful apps that you can use to automate work and life tasks and to build apps and websites without programming … [Read more...]
Strategies For Tacit Knowledge Transfer
What is Tacit Knowledge? Can you explain all of the skills necessary to be an effective leader? What about the skills needed to create an innovative design? There are aspects of these skills that are … [Read more...]
8 Ways To Choose A Color Palette For eLearning
One of the most frustrating aspects of learning design is choosing a color palette for eLearning. The color palette refers to the limited and predefined set of colors you use in a design. If we … [Read more...]
ELC 071: Learning is the New Business Strategy
A Conversation with Brandon Carson
We’re living in a time of exploding change and disruption. I think there are some people in Learning and Development who are looking at this transformation and actually making sense of it. Brandon … [Read more...]
How to Build an Instructional Design Portfolio
Creating an instructional design portfolio is a way to demonstrate your skills to future employers or clients. It is also a personal record of your work and growth. Your portfolio can be a dynamic … [Read more...]
Using Thumbnail Sketches In eLearning Design
What do you do when you need to think through visual ideas, a story or an interactive exercise? One of the best techniques I know for design and generating ideas is to create small rough sketches, … [Read more...]
ELC 070: Conversation Design for the Voice User Interface
A Conversation with Myra Roldan
Do you wonder what learning experience designers will be doing in the future? I think one area where we will need to upskill is in conversation design. Think of the possibilities that chatbots and … [Read more...]
What makes someone an expert?
The Cognitive Psychology of Expertise
The purpose of most long-term learning experiences is to move an individual from a state of little proficiency in a skill to one of competence or even expertise. But what makes someone an expert? … [Read more...]
Creativity In Instructional Design
A Creative Instructional Design Model
One of the reasons I fell in love with instructional design is that it's both analytical and creative. You might start the day deep into an instructional analysis and you might be ideating a creative … [Read more...]