Many of us work with small budgets, dry content and harsh deadlines. How do you stay motivated in instructional design?
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Do instructional animations help or hinder learning?
The learning goal is key
How can you make animations for learning that are effective? Why do so many animations fail to yield results? Find the answers here.
Design for Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processing
People use both top-down processing and bottom-up processing as they are learning. Here’s how to design for both.
How To Be More Creative At Work
For Learning Experience Designers
Being creative on demand can be difficult. See these strategies for how to be more creative at work.
Elaboration Strategies That Benefit Learning
Making Connections to Prior Knowledge
These elaboration strategies provide ways to connect new learning to prior knowledge in order to make learning meaningful.
Alternatives to Correct and Incorrect
Eight approaches to providing learning feedback
Eight options for providing feedback that is informative, motivating and corrects misconceptions, moving the learner forward.
Use Visual Cues To Enhance Learning
Directing Attention with Visual Cues
Visual cues direct the eyes to the relevant information in a graphic. This helps ensure that people understand the intended message and adds efficiency to visual communication.
Emotions And Learning: Part I
Emotion and Cognition
Appealing to the emotions is one of the keys to motivating people, attracting their attention and facilitating memory.
The Power of Retrieval Practice For Learning
An Instructional Strategy for Long-term Retention
Retrieval practice is one of the best instructional strategies to use when learners are required to memorize things like procedures, product details, and technical information.
How To Increase Learning Transfer
We should try to ensure the training we design that we increase learning transfer to the workplace and authentic life situations.
Metacognition And Learning: Strategies For Instructional Design
Metacognition strategies are techniques that help people become more successful learners. Shouldn’t this be a crucial goal of instructional design?
Watch Out For Those Seductive Details
A seductive detail is highly interesting to the audience members, but not directly relevant to the instructional goal. How does this impact learning?