The Instructional Designers Community of India  is hosting yet another free  learning session on September 19, 2009. This time the session is about Learner Centric Methodology used in E-learning. The session coverage would be: 1. What is LCM? How does LCM help design effective learning? What are the key principles of LCM? How does LCM benefit stakeholders? case study based on LCM. LCM methodology will be explained using use cases/case studies. Audience Level : Advance. About the Speaker : Geeta  Bose heads a learning innovations and design company, Kern Learning Solutions. PLEASE NOTE. MORE >>

by ruparajgo | Create your own Cartoon at www.toondoo.com. Have you seen a kid take a toy apart and fix the toy together again?  This might seem like a childish act of taking things apart just for fun. But then this childish act of taking things apart can also be a huge learning process. . Here is someone who talks about how he and his son break down a musical piece and  learn to put the parts and phrases together: Just like working through a reverse engineering problem, my son and I first break each piece down into its individual phrases.  What is Reverse Engineering? My experience. MORE >>

This post is in response to the Big Question December 2009 – What did you learn about learning in 2009? Well, 2009 is also now very special because this year I decided to become an independent professional. guess this year I learnt much more than last year. Let me quickly list some highlights here: I have written better quality articles. have gained good instructional designing and technical writing skills. learnt microblogging through Twitter. The Instructional Designers Community of India was formed this year and I got the opportunity to  organize learning sessions. MORE >>

In India, there are very few training institutes or universities that offer certification courses in Instructional Designing. When you look  at the courses that these training institutes offer, all these courses follow the classical approach to teaching  Instructional Designing. In a classical approach, you start with the basic concepts, theories and then move on to application. At the end of the course, the learner will have to do a storyboard for which he/she will be evaluated and given a certificate. So typically the course duration for such beginner level course would be three months. MORE >>

I read this post by Natalie where she talks about her job interview during which she had to create a short training presentation. Her post title reads as Epiphany, but too late? Maybe. Maybe. She says she had lot of fun in  her interview. She also says soon after the interview, she  reflected on that test and thought of alternative ways to present the same training. She says “ I can come to a situation with a number of ideas and even make a decision on one, but then I will ruminate later on how to do it differently or better.&#. These posts have triggered me to write this post. know how? MORE >>