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...]
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...]
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...]
Writing Multiple Choice Questions For Higher Order Thinking
One of the biggest criticisms of multiple choice questions is that they only test factual knowledge. But it doesn't have to be that way. We can also use multiple choice questions to assess … [Read more...]
Using Critiques To Improve Learning Experience Design
How to Run Design Critiques for Learning Experience Design
Critiques for learning experience design are beginning to catch on. The input from others can bring new perspectives and insight to a draft or beta version of any work. Critiques are a collaborative … [Read more...]
How to Do a Quality Assurance Self-Check on Your Own eLearning
Quality Assurance Testing
Before you send your eLearning on for a quality review, how well do you test it yourself? Doing your own QA or quality assurance testing may seem like an obvious task. Yet too many people pass on … [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...]
5 Levers Of eLearning Design
How can you continually improve the eLearning experiences you design to make them more effective? Pull these levers a bit more with every new effort. 1. Address Motivation in eLearning Design Start … [Read more...]
Starting a Learning Design Team
It may not be as easy as pressing a button, but with enough research and planning, your organization can build an instructional design team. You will need to define its purpose and understand the … [Read more...]
10 Ways To Protect Yourself From Client Issues
Whether you're dealing with stakeholders, subject matter experts, internal clients or external customers, some issues are bound to arise during the design and development of learning experiences. … [Read more...]