If you are intrigued by the future of learning design, you won’t want to miss the second half of this interview with Karl Kapp. Coach: What types of challenges do newer technologies, such as mobile and podcast, present to the instructional designer? Having said that, another challenge confronting instructional designers is to “think outside the classroom” paradigm. Designers need to get their heads out of the design books and into other media to see how its done outside the field. Post from: The eLearning Coach The Future Of Learning Design. MORE >>

If you know me, you’ll know my topic was right up my alley: “Instructional Design: You Do What for a Living?” asked people to introduce themselves and tell their stories – how they each got into instructional design. We all agreed that no one set out in their early days with the grand vision of becoming an instructional designer. Know story and design and how it translates to people. Tags: instruct dl09 instructional design At DevLearn ‘09, I had the pleasure of hosting a Thursday morning Breakfast Byte. bleary-eyed, loosely organized conversation. MORE >>

Very recently Rupa Rajagopalan wrote about how instructional design is a profession very similar to technical writing. While my thoughts resonate with a lot of what Rupa usually writes, I strongly believe that Instructional Design is less of a writing job and more of a consulting job. I've written earlier about how Instructional Designers need to leverage SME's better and the more I think about iterative design and development, writing increasingly becomes a secondary skill for Instructional Designers. Sumeet Moghe, 2009. More on that later! MORE >>

My inspiration for this series of posts has been what I've learnt about their style of learning design and how approaches we've tried internally at ThoughtWorks compare as a stark contrast. The standard process followed by many internal teams and design firms. The only people in contact with the customer are the Instructional Designer and the Project Manager The only people that understand the customer's problem and the subject matter of learning are the Instructional Designers The builder delivers the most value in the process of elearning development, but is the least respected. MORE >>

Here is a great article by Jeremy Vest on things to keep in mind when doing instructional design for video. Sins of Online Video Instructional Design. April 30, 2009. By Jeremy Vest (C hief learning officer of Splash Media and author of “Exploring Web Design.&# ). More… Tags: Featured Instructional Design video A lot of training is using video and it’s becoming very easy to create and distribute. As things become easier and cheaper we often see the quality decrease. Post from SalesMarketing.com ). Not connected to learners. MORE >>