Experiencing eLearning

JULY 6, 2010

Back when I wrote my instructional design careers series in 2007, I was only aware of a few blogs by instructional designers. Since then, I’ve discovered a wealth of blogs by instructional designers, e-learning developers, and workplace learning specialists. Instructional Designers.

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Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

on social media is the personal blog, according to Monique Judge. Watching the demise of Twitter under the helm of Elon Musk has made me nostalgic for the personal blogging days. The decline of Twitter with the current erosion of legacy media has left me thinking we need to bring personal blogging back with a vengeance.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Instructional designers and training managers sometimes ask me, “How do I train SMEs to write better branching scenarios?” I believe SMEs shouldn’t write branching scenarios. I genuinely don’t think it’s a subject matter expert’s job to write a full branching scenario.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 24, 2022

I share these links periodically here on my blog. This post includes links on UX, accessibility, branching scenarios, Twine, instructional design blogs, free/freemium tools, and systems thinking. 7 Articles To Help You Improve Your eLearning Designs. Guidelines for writing good alt text.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 29, 2014

I missed my anniversary by a few days, but I’ve now been blogging for 8 years. Voice Over Scripts: Writing Style Tips. My Instructional Design Careers posts also continue to be popular, and are a primary way people find me on search engines. Image Credit: Graphic Stock Filed under: Blogging , Lifelong Learning'

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CourseArc

DECEMBER 20, 2021

12 Helpful Resources for Instructional Design. Top books, blogs, videos, and more to excel as an instructional designer. Instructional design is the thoughtful application of design aspects — like color theory, typography, and user experience — to create educational resources.

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Association eLearning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

I usually write a blog post, you skim or read it, maybe share it, and we move on. If you’d like to read more about training, learning, and instructional design check out the rest of this author’s blogs. Let’s try something a bit different today, for a change of pace. How about something a bit more engaging?

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 29, 2020

I have written over 1100 blog posts since I started this blog in 2006. What does an instructional designer do? Over the years, many people have asked me what an instructional designer does and how to get into the field. Instructional Design Hourly Rates and Salary. Instructional Design Careers.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 3, 2016

I recently gave a presentation to the Online Network of Independent Learning Professionals about blogging to build your business. This is specifically about what I have learned about blogging to build your reputation as a learning consultant over my 9+ years of blogging. I’m not specifically writing to an audience of clients.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 23, 2021

While I often share those recordings on my blog as they happen, this is the first time I have compiled a complete list like this. I’m linking to blog posts about the presentations rather than directly to the recordings because I often include links to resources or further information in my posts. Blogging to Build Your Business.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

APRIL 22, 2024

It’s not as if designers and developers are heartless beasts who think that people with disabilities deserve to be left out. Most often, it’s that we’re not sure how to develop accessible eLearning without compromising effective instructional design. Summary We don’t have to sacrifice good design for accessibility.

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Continu

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The simple answer is you use an instructional design model. An instructional design model is a tool or a framework to develop your training materials. With an instructional design model, employees can better understand why there is a training need and breaks down the process of designing training material into steps.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 23, 2024

Questions about writing branching scenarios? Do you have questions about writing branching scenarios, including writing questions and options like these? Many of my blog posts are based on questions I get from readers. I may answer it in a future blog post. Upcoming events Creating Your Online E-Learning Portfolio.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I share these links periodically here on my blog. AI, Instructional Design, and OER – improving learning I agree with the idea that AI and LLMs will make it much easier to create a first draft of content. The topics include writing proposals, pricing, automating processes, email and phone scripts, positioning, and more.

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Philip's Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Instantly, the employee Y responded with confidence, "I am an Instructional Designer". I never knew that our firm started expanding solutions into Interior Designing. What do you think about the response from the Instructional Designer? To his surprise, employee X remarked, "Really? Anyways, that's cool!"

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Hurix Digital

APRIL 3, 2024

As we step into 2024, it becomes crucial to explore the top 8 instructional design models that are revolutionizing the way we approach education and training. In this blog, we will go through each of the 8 instrumental design models in detail to let you choose the right one for you.

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eLearning Cyclops

JANUARY 1, 2013

If you have been visiting, I am sure you noticed I have been writing very, very little lately. It has been an very busy at work, which of course limits time to blog but has more directly affected the motivation to blog. So, I am going to be far more diligent in blogging but in a manner that is more informal and just plain fun.

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Ed App

JULY 26, 2022

From looking for the best e learning tool to discovering the most effective digital learning strategy, you can always count on elearning blogs to get a good stream of great ideas. Perhaps you’re on the prowl for the best blogs to stay on top of the latest trends in the world of elearning? Then your search ends here! Elearning courses.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 9, 2024

When I talk to people about starting a blog, newsletter, LinkedIn posts, or other content marketing, they often confess that they’re worried they don’t have anything to write about. They ask how I come up with ideas, especially when I’ve been blogging so long. My ideas for posts come from several sources.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 16, 2018

I’m active in the instructional design subreddit (/r/instructionaldesign). Someone without an instructional design background posted this question about how to design training for volunteers. This list will hopefully be pretty long, so you’re mostly focusing on writing up clear checklists of procedures.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 11, 2022

Some of these resources are exclusive to the course and won’t be available on my blog or through other sources. Instructional designers who want to create a branching scenario. What if I don’t do any development in my work, only planning and writing? I don’t write scenarios; I just want to build them.

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Philip's Learning

MARCH 6, 2023

Have you ever considered a career as an instructional designer? Instructional designers are responsible for creating effective and engaging learning experiences for students and employees. They design and develop educational materials, assessments, and courses that help people learn and improve their skills.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 14, 2023

I share these links periodically here on my blog. This post includes links on growth mindset, an AI tool for instructional design, branching scenarios, accessibility, and a magazine issue with elearning articles by multiple prominent authors. As I read online, I bookmark resources I find interesting and useful.

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IT Training Department Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

That’s what spurred my idea to write about where to put digital training content if you don’t have an LMS. This is a comparison of the value of technical writing vs. instructional design. If you know me at all then you know I hold more value in instructional design.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 31, 2010

In my opinion, every sort of principle ever used in the design of commercial video games applies to the creation of digital learning games as well. My opinion is that game design can’t really be reduced to a set of guidelines that instructional designers can follow to design games that teach.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 26, 2020

I share these links periodically here on my blog. In this post, I share links on writing about unfamiliar subjects plus 3 different sets of instructional design competencies. Writing when you’re not a SME. Instructional design competencies. You do research and work with a SME.

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WhatFix

MAY 12, 2023

Back to Blog Employee Training & Development 7 Effective Instructional Design Models in 2023 Published: May 12, 2023 Disha Gupta An increasingly competitive business landscape, accelerated technology adoption, and the rise of a global workforce are all significant factors in a renewed focus on employee learning and development.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I share these links periodically here on my blog. These aren’t learning or training games, but it’s useful to look at games outside of L&D for ideas on game mechanics, look and feel, choice writing, and other elements of games. Transitioning from education to instructional design. Games built in Twine.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 24, 2019

2019 was a big year for my blog. This year, I focused on writing new posts plus updating some older content. I started this blog in 2006 as a free wordpress.com blog. I was using my blog primarily as a tool for my own reflection and learning. This is post #1,115 on my blog. Starting out in 2006. 2020 Goals.

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Association eLearning

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

I write about instructional design (ID) all the time but I’ve never stopped to explain what Instructional Designers really do. So, here’s my personal definition instead: Instructional design is the art/science of making things make sense. Basic visual design. I want to apologize. Creativity.

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Maestro

MAY 19, 2022

Is your instructional-design toolkit up-to-date? Whether you’re getting started with instructional design, looking to dig deeper, or just checking out the scene, we’ve rounded up the best resources for instructional designers. In fact, most instructional design models are variants of this one.

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Matthew Guyan

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Recently my friend Ryan Tracey posted a list of 10 journals every e-learning professional should read in response to my list of 5 Books Every eLearning Professional Should Read which was in response to his 5 papers every learning professional should read (this feeling like the blogging equivalent to a game of tennis).

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Origin Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

However, writing such content also poses a couple of instructional design challenges: Separating content from presentation is almost a cliche in the lingo of device-agnostic content developers. Instructional designers may be working on a desktop browser while authoring what goes onto each page.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 4, 2023

Dialogue can be tricky to write. When I teach people how to write branching scenarios, writing dialogue is one of the places people get stuck. If you’re used to writing in a more formal style, writing dialogue can feel very unfamiliar. Tip #1: Use more contractions When you write dialogue, use contractions.

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Though a variety of models guide our instructional design work, I’d argue that ADDIE functions as the basic backbone of the process. Just about every model, trend, and best practice in the field supports one of the phases of ADDIE. D = Design (design the solution, create a blueprint). Happy new year!

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Learnnovators, a leading e-learning company, has Karl Kapp writing a series of blog posts for them on gamification. Karl Kapp is one of the foremost experts and prominent ‘gurus’ on gamification, which is the application of game design techniques to non-game situations. Chennai (India). Corporate Contact. Vijay Kumar.

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Ed App

JULY 3, 2022

Having access to instructional design resources is helpful when you’re creating quality content. There are different ways to build instructional materials, from learning the theories to applying advanced techniques in today’s digital technologies. Here are some of the instructional design resources to help you get started. .

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