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Who are Instructional Designers? The existential dilemma.

ID Reflections

Many organizations are investing in Authoring Tools like Articulate and Captivate and strongly feel that their SMEs who have in-depth knowledge of the subject can deliver the e-learning courses. Wikipedia has a page devoted to the role of a BA and there are umpteenth other websites that define the role too. Some relevant reads: i.

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Why You Should Adopt Social Learning

EI Design

How Effective Is Social Learning In Helping Learners Learn? As initially outlined by Bandura and Walters in 1963 and further detailed in 1977, key tenets of social learning theory are as follows: Learning is not purely behavioral; rather, it is a cognitive process that takes place in a social context.

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Is Your Instructional Design Strategy Right For Your eLearning Project?

Zipboard

What learning theory would serve the project’s needs best? Instructional Design Strategy - Free ebook for download - zipBoard What Learning Theory Are You Using? As laid out by Wikipedia, learning theories are “Conceptual frameworks describing how knowledge is absorbed, processed, and retained during learning.”

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Is Your Instructional Design Strategy Right For Your eLearning Project?

Zipboard

What learning theory would serve the project’s needs best? What Learning Theory Are You Using? As laid out by Wikipedia, learning theories are “Conceptual frameworks describing how knowledge is absorbed, processed, and retained during learning.” Present learning material.

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eLearning Learning - Best of May

Tony Karrer

Tools - Don't Waste Your Time , May 10, 2009 Informal Learning Technology - eLearning Technology , May 11, 2009 Capture Examples - eLearning Technology , May 29, 2009 Presentation: Blogs in Education - Don't Waste Your Time , May 22, 2009 Top Other Items The following are the top other items based on social signals.

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100 eLearning Articles and White Papers

Tony Karrer

Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory 2. Keeping Up with the Pace of Change Informal learning will help employees survive in the future workplace 3. Understanding E-Learning 2.0 There are some very interesting changes going on in the world of e-learning that seem to have crept up on practitioners.

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Are you playing the role of the Subject Matter Expert instead of the Instructional Designer?

Janet Clarey

With rapid e-learning tools, you don’t necessarily need to know the ID equivalent of engineering (learning theories, human psychology, instructional science) to create the course. Think of most rapid e-learning courses. Rapid e-learning tools serve their purpose, I hope without sacrificing development.