'So you want to be an instructional designer but you’re not sure the exact qualifications ? Well, Today’s Instructional Designer does more than create elearning or live instructor courses, they must wear many hats. While certainly not an exhaustive list, today’s new and improved instructional designer must play the roles of: Writer: In many cases, courses are derived from technical documentation, various word documents, PowerPoint slides, and so on. Facilitator: More often than not, the instructional designer is roped into live training in some capacity or another. MORE >>

How many years have you been designing educational games? Started with my first job out of college, designing and programming educational computer games. Using a design framework of Analysis, Specification, Implementation, and Evaluation: Analysis. For any educational task, you have to start by looking at what your design objective is: you need to document what folks should be able to do that they can’t do now. This isn’t unusual to learning design, except perhaps the focus on skills. Game design is a team sport. design games MORE >>

'These three slide shows are not specifically about instructional design but, when creating online learning, I think these slide shows present a great deal to consider. Here is one on slide design: Visual Design Basics from Sumeet Moghe. Here is one on News Design, interesting visuals which can be used/adapted for instructional design. Tips for news design from chrissnider. Here are a couple of slide presentations about designing Infographics. Design Using just some of these techniques will make your online learning “POP”! MORE >>

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. Design for Learning is written by Natalie Laderas-Kilkenny, a former coworker of mine who blogs on education and technology. Rupa Rajagopalan’s Writers Gateway provides a perspective on instructional design and e-learning in India. learning. Workplace Learning. MORE >>

These are my live blogged notes from a webinar today with Float Learning: Instructional Design for Mobile #id4mlearning. Resources: Gary Woodill’s The Mobile Learning Edge Clark Quinn, Designing mLearning Barbara Ballard, Designing the Mobile User Experience (We can tell a field is about to take off because there’s a big rash of books!) mobile instructional designAdvance apologies for typos or incoherence… Brought to us today by: Adam Bockler, Float Gary Woodill, Sr. floatlearning Agenda: conversation points Where we came from Where we are at? Where’s it going? MORE >>