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4 Pillars Playbook: Creating Interactive eLearning Instructional Designs [eBook]

eLearning Industry

Discover how to create inspiring and engaging eLearning experiences that transform your team into top performers. This playbook has tips to develop interactive instructional designs that spark meaningful change. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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What does an instructional designer do?

Paradiso Solutions

Instructional Designer on the eLearning Hemisphere. Online learning has transformed how learning is imparted to the learners; it makes learning simpler, easier, and more effective than the traditional teaching method. This is where the instructional designer’s role comes into play. So, who is an instructional designer?

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Bit by the Instructional Design Bug: A Conversation with Connie Malamed

TalentLMS

In the realm of workplace learning, L&D and Instructional Design work together like a lock and key. And Instructional Design shapes learning experiences that unlock new skills. Yet, instructional design often gets boxed into eLearning development—as if it’s only about churning out online courses.

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Creating Engaging Courses for Professional Training

Academy of Mine

We recently sat down with Camron Brewer, the co-founder of Key Learning LLC , an instructional design company that works with other companies to design learning materials used for training employees and educating customers. What is Instructional Design? Differences between Instructional Design and eLearning Development.

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How to Create Engaging eLearning Through Visual Design

Speaker: Tim Slade, Speaker, Author, Award-Winning Freelance eLearning Designer

The effectiveness of any eLearning course is only as good as its instructional design. But can instructional design alone make an eLearning course engaging and effective? The truth is, good eLearning design is more than just instructional design.

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Instructional Design: Still Kicking! 

Learning Rebels

Instructional Design is NOT dead! Back in 2017, I wrote a post about the importance of instructional design and its power to create impactful learning experiences. New technologies are constantly popping up, learner expectations are constantly evolving, and standard practices are being redefined. But fear not.

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Why is the ADDIE model important, and why instructional designers follow it?

Clarity Consultants

Each stage of the model has its purpose, goals, and outcomes, which work together to create a cohesive learning experience. First and foremost, the ADDIE model provides a structured approach to instructional design. With a clear understanding of the learners and their needs, the design process is likely to succeed.

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Stop Thinking Like an Instructional Designer, Start Thinking Like a Game Designer

Speaker: Karl Kapp, Professor of Instructional Technology, Bloomsburg University

Instructional designers tend to think content first and action second. As a result, most games are engaging, intriguing, and immersive, while instructional content tends to be boring and perfunctory. Simply changing your mindset from instructional designer to game designer will help you to create engaging and effective instruction.

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Why Most eLearning Fails: How to Create eLearning that Gets Results

Speaker: Tim Slade, Speaker, Author, and Creator of The eLearning Designer's Academy

The sad reality is that most eLearning courses require learners to sit through a disappointing experience, where information is poorly organized, the content isn’t relevant, and the interactions seem contrived and without purpose. Why good eLearning requires more than instructional design.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging?

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Agile Microlearning Explained

Learner engagement and retention doesn’t have to be a mystery. Cognitive science theories already supply the answers. Learn how OttoLearn packages them into a single platform you can use to deliver microlearning based reinforcement training, and go beyond completions to focus on outcomes.

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Developing a Results Driven Curriculum

A well-designed learning curriculum develops and nurtures skills needed to achieve organizational and business goals with the most effective and engaging set of experiences. This ebook outlines 5 critical steps to develop learning solutions that will help you achieve the most ambitious objectives.