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Generational Differences

CourseArc

When instructional designers create courses for Baby Boomers, they should remember that this generation did not grow up with all the technology that is now coming into the world; therefore, courses designed for this audience must have an intuitive interface. Millennials : Millennials (Born 1981-2000).

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9 Effective Instructional Design Tactics

LearnDash

Effective online (or offline) instructional design is a critical component to improving learning retention. Without a well through-out instructional model, learning opportunities can be missed – sometimes completely. There are many theories on instructional design best practices. elearning instructional design'

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In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

eLearning 24-7

Let us take a trip back to the late 90s and 2000. Instructional designers were getting ready to be in high demand, especially in the corporate world. Instructional technologists was a term, many folks had heard of. If you didn’t know Flash nor have an instructional design background, options were limited.

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Instructional Design and Rapid Prototyping: Rising from the Ashes of ADDIE

Dashe & Thomson

Tom Gram, one of my favorite bloggers, a few years ago responded to the hue and cry about ADDIE’s demise in the field of instructional design. And instructional design/e-learning has gone through the same process. ADDIE’s linear perspective provides a structured step-by step instructional design process. In ADDIE is DEAD!

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How Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction Can Make Your Online Courses Better

CourseArc

His pioneering work in instructional design led to a systematic approach to learning that we know today as Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction. This famed nine-step process can be adapted to help instructional designers and trainers in all fields create highly-effective courses in any topic. Conclusion.

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Hindsight is 2020 - 20 Years of Driving Digital Engagement in the Virtual Classroom

InSync Training

On January 3, 2000, I created a company named InSync Training. I entered the marketplace with the vision of providing foundational, proven practices for training professionals to use and maximize virtual live instructional technologies in delivering training programs. At that time, the U.S.

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Rules and Instructional Games

Kapp Notes

Or they tell you that collecting 2000 tokens allows you to buy a cooler snow board. Another set of rules exist in an instructional game and those rules are the Instructional Rules , not mentioned in the game literature but absolutely required rules for gamification of learning and instruction.

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