Writing Distractors Is Not Easy The purpose of a test is to determine a participant's mastery of the performance objectives and to find out whether a learning experience was successful. … [Read more...]
What Do Instructional Designers Do?
Starting a Career in Instructional Design
What is instructional design? Instructional design involves the process of identifying the performance, skills and attitude gaps of a targeted audience and creating or selecting learning experiences … [Read more...]
Writing Performance-based Learning Objectives: Part 3
Writing Performance-based Learning Objectives for the Audience In case you were asleep, the previous two articles in this series discussed how to write learning objectives for your internal eLearning … [Read more...]
Writing Performance-based Learning Objectives: Part 2
Measurable Learning Objectives Part 1 of this series covered how to write four-part learning objectives. Part 2 focuses on making your performance or learning objectives measurable. What Is … [Read more...]
Writing Performance-Based Learning Objectives: Part 1
There are at least two categories of performance-based learning objectives based on their purpose. One type of learning objective is for internal use—the design team, client and subject matter expert. … [Read more...]
Alternatives to Bloom’s Taxonomy for Workplace Learning
How Bloom's Taxonomy Came About Discussions at the 1948 Convention of the American Psychological Association resulted in Benjamin Bloom leading a group of educators in an effort to classify … [Read more...]
Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning Explained
Virtual classroom learning or self-paced instruction?
As technology evolves, the ways to present online learning increase. If the sheer number of approaches seem confusing, you may find it helpful to think in terms of two simple categories—synchronous … [Read more...]
Best Resources For Creating Live Virtual Training Right Now
Due to the coronavirus outbreak, an increasing number of universities, colleges, schools and businesses are canceling in-person classes, meetings and events and moving them online. Yet, doing live … [Read more...]
Journalism Techniques To Borrow For eLearning
In some ways, the goals of learning experience designers aren't that different from those of journalists. When it comes to writing a news or magazine story, the journalist's goal is to inform, educate … [Read more...]
Types of Analysis for eLearning
Six Lenses for Looking at Analysis
Prior to starting a new training or eLearning project or even an idea for a project, you need the facts before you can proceed. You can usually gather the facts by conducting one or more forms of … [Read more...]
The Art Of Writing Great Voice Over Scripts
Remember all those essays and reports you wrote in school? They were written for a teacher to silently read. They were rarely read aloud. Fast forward to the world of work where you are responsible … [Read more...]
Learner Personas for Instructional Design
One thing we can learn from the field of User Experience design is how to create user personas, better known as learner personas in the world of eLearning. Personas are well-developed fictional … [Read more...]