August, 2012

From the Coleface

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Tricks of the trade for instructional design

From the Coleface

One of the best things about working in instructional design is that you get to work with a variety of organisations and ask some of their smartest people about the tricks of their trade e.g. What does best practice look like? What are the common pitfalls? What are the early warning signs that something may not fit the standard process? Much of this involves delving into the heuristics (or rules of thumb) that skilled people use to make effective decisions.

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Mobile pitfall #3: Where was I again?

From the Coleface

The nature of using a mobile device for learning is that you’re likely to get interrupted – after all phones were designed primarily to be for phone calls (and are used primarily for text messages ). Also learners may well be accessing the learning in situation where they might get interrupted e.g. the train arrives or the boarding call for the plane goes out.

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