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...]
10 Lesser Known Free Or Inexpensive Stock Photo Sites
Stock Photos for Instructional Design
Many of us must work on projects with small budgets that require free resources. Fortunately, free or cheap stock photo sites can save the day. In the last several years, the quality of free stock has … [Read more...]
Answers To Instructional Design Career Questions
I get lots of emails from people who are considering a career in instructional design. In fact, that's why I created a free 12-lesson email course called Breaking into Instructional Design. It's all … [Read more...]
How Long Does it Take to Develop eLearning?
Resources for Estimating Training Development Time
Are you unsure of how to answer the big question: How long does it take to develop eLearning? As you might expect, there is no one answer because there are multiple factors to consider when estimating … [Read more...]
Alternatives to Correct and Incorrect
Eight approaches to providing learning feedback
Imagine a trainer at the front of the room responding to a participant's comment by saying nothing more than "You're right!" or "Incorrect." Imagine this happening over and over again. So, why is … [Read more...]
Finding Your Place In an Instructional Design Career
Instructional Design Career Paths
If you aren't happy with your career in instructional design or want to start a career in this industry, there's no reason to be a square peg in a round hole. There are numerous instructional design … [Read more...]
10 Ways To Organize Instructional Content
Information Architecture for Learning
When you order content in a way that makes sense to learners, it facilitates the learning process. Organizing instructional content provides a framework for navigating information. It also helps … [Read more...]
The World Needs More Checklists
Using Checklists for Performance Support
One of the most brilliant cognitive aids devised by some very smart humans is the checklist. Hidden in this deceptively simple format is a type of performance support that has saved lives in the air … [Read more...]