Conduct research and synthesize information from a variety of sources. Tags: DESIGN ISD RECENT ARTICLES A few months ago I published a list of the 10 Qualities Of The Ideal Instructional Designer. Since then, the eLearning community contributed so many qualities to the list it is now overflowing. The comments more or less fell into a few categories: working with SMEs, designing and developing content, love of learning, business savvy and personal attributes. So here are the next 35 qualities. The effective instructional designer should: Competently Work with SMEs. Steve Burdick). MORE >>

One of the paradoxes of serious academic research in the digital age is that as information becomes more readily and widely available, it becomes harder for untrained readers to find high-quality, trustworthy information, and to tell the difference between the good and bad. What’s the difference between citing an article in Sports Illustrated and one in Sports medicine ? research team at the University of Michigan Institute of Museum and Library Studies has developed a new approach to teaching these skills: an online, social game called BiblioBouts. MORE >>

How governments research and communicate about the future -  Ross Dawson , November 7, 2011. Best of  Working Smarter Daily. November 1, 2011 to November 25, 2011. Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. Here’s how we choose the crème de la crème for your enjoyment. use the daily recap to keep up with what’s going on. MORE >>

Regular readers of this blog will be aware that we recently supported ASTD research on Mobile Learning , a report around that was released in May 2012. ASTD conducted a free webinar on that research report this week. iPad rules the market : John pointed out to a Forbes article that lists 50 largest deployments of iPads. Mobile delivery & market performance : The research found that “ the delivery of internal content by mobile devices is strongly correlated to learning effectiveness and to market performance ”. Mobile Learning mLearning Mobile Learning Research MORE >>

made this comment as part of the interview: It’s easy to get caught up in theories without really looking at whether the research support is there. Bloom didn’t have any research for his taxonomy, but I still find it useful for my own planning; I just don’t pretend there’s a research-based argument for classifying a verb as application instead of analysis. That post summarized research on what happens when you remove elements of instruction. Do you have research support for putting a verb in one category or another? Instructional Design Research MORE >>