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OCTOBER 6, 2011

Created in the military during World War II, the Instructional Systems Design (ISD) model has dominated curriculum design for the last 40 years. The Accelerated Learning Rapid Instructional Design (RID) model is based on the concept that people learn more from experience with feedback than from training materials and presentations.

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JULY 11, 2017

Dashe & Thomson's award-winning creative director, Eric Berget, explains how to use images creatively in your eLearning design. by Eric Berget & Andy Schiemo. Beware the floating rectangle!

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AUGUST 22, 2018

Below is a collection of free eLearning design resources that I have personally found useful as an eLearning, web, and graphic designer. The problem with many free resource sites is that you are often inundated with so much unusable garbage that it’s hard not to feel like you are wasting your time.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

Scoff at designs that don’t communicate efficiently? You, my friend, are a victim of bad user experience design, and you’re not alone. I’m not an angry person or an overly anal person, but I just take notice of dysfunctional design in the physical and digital world. This discussion is not limited to interface design.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

Your knowledge, and the relationship you form with the instructional designer (ID) picking your brain, will be vital to the success of your team’s training project. So, you’ve been asked to be a SME - a Subject Matter Expert - on an upcoming training project? Congratulations! It’s a big deal to be considered an expert.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

Scoff at designs that don’t communicate efficiently? You, my friend, are a victim of bad user experience design, and you’re not alone. The post User Experience Design – What it Is / What it Isn’t appeared first on Social Learning Blog. Reprimand your laptop when filling out unclear online forms?

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APRIL 1, 2013

The post Evidence That Designers May Soon Rule the World appeared first on Social Learning Blog. A bunch of us at Dashe & Thomson had a great time a couple weeks ago when we attended the South by Southwest Interactive conference – an enormous event that one blogger dubbed the “digital Super Bowl.”

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

There are many ingredients for success in E-learning development and one… The post Sound Instructional Design in E-Learning Development appeared first on Dashe & Thomson. As a Creative Technologist, my role is, well, to use technology creatively, primarily within E-learning development.

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MAY 2, 2016

Visual design, the look and feel of a course, will have a big impact on how the… The post Watch your (eLearning) Tone: Top Techniques in Visual Design appeared first on Dashe & Thomson. E-Learning, like almost any form of communication, is not simply just about WHAT you say, but HOW you say it.

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AUGUST 21, 2011

What I didn’t realize was how well my theatre training would serve me in the world of consulting and instructional design for corporate training projects. So how does active listening relate to instructional design? You start to move from collaboration to a dictatorship and the production (or design project) WILL suffer for it.

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MAY 7, 2012

Tom Gram, one of my favorite bloggers, a few years ago responded to the hue and cry about ADDIE’s demise in the field of instructional design. For many years the five ADDIE phases were the foundation for the design of most systems. And instructional design/e-learning has gone through the same process. In ADDIE is DEAD!

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

But, what can the instructional designer do to increase the chances of project success? We’ve already provided tips for the L&D Manager on how to conduct a great project kickoff meeting.

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JANUARY 30, 2015

Thou shalt know thy audience and context Good design is good communication. ”… The post The Ten Commandments of Elegant and Effective PowerPoint Design appeared first on Dashe & Thomson. . ”… The post The Ten Commandments of Elegant and Effective PowerPoint Design appeared first on Dashe & Thomson.

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JUNE 22, 2011

James Hill is an instructional designer at The Home Depot Inc. He designs and develops training programs and performance improvement tools for front-line sales employees. He has also designed learning for the transportation industry and military. Now I have multiple design and delivery options available to me.

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APRIL 29, 2015

On the… The post ILT Instructor Guides: Are You a Helicopter or a Free-Range Instructional Designer? appeared first on Dashe & Thomson.

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JUNE 30, 2011

Vincent Flango is a PMI-certified government contracts manager for General Dynamics Information Technology and a senior Instructional Systems Designer. I highly recommend it for those in the training field: “Instructional Design & Technology.&# [ [link] - ids ]. He is a recurring speaker at educational technology conferences.

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MARCH 27, 2018

You can’t find anything written about how to conduct a Training Needs Assessment that doesn’t include “know your audience.” Most guides go something like this:

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JANUARY 21, 2019

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MARCH 11, 2011

by Jolene on March 11, 2011 in Gaming Theory , Instructional Design , Training Development , eLearning Over the last year or so, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to incorporate games into eLearning instructional design projects. It is not enough, however, to just add a Jeopardy or Wheel-of-Fortune game to our instructional design.

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MARCH 27, 2011

by Barbara on March 28, 2011 in Instructional Design , performance support Accelerated Learning Mind Map While I was taking classes in curriculum design, we discussed, at great length, different learning styles: visual, auditory and kinesthetic. There is so much talk about “push” versus “pull” in training circles?without Properly d.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

Fortunately, this is often due not to the content itself, or general employee stubbornness, but rather poorly designed, deployed, and customized learning courses. That is, many employees dislike training programs not because they dislike development, but because their organizations are failing to provide positive experiences.

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MAY 8, 2011

It has been around for all of my 15+ years as an instructional designer and training developer, and goes back much further than that. On-demand is gaining ground quickly on traditional solutions and that is forcing our industry to reasses how we design, develop, and deploy learning solutions. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 15, 2011

My question is whether the Four Levels hold together as an evaluation design, considering that they still focus on the training event. McGoldrick decided that the model to use in developing the evaluation design would be Scriven’s Key Evaluation Checklist (KEC). Properly d.

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JUNE 19, 2019

Let’s face it: as helpful as ADDIE is as an instructional design methodology, it doesn't really guide the the project management process. That’s because ADDIE, like many instructional design methodologies, wasn’t originally designed with the “e” in mind. But do you know what can?

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Finding ways to incorporate these elements can be difficult for instructional designers, curriculum developers, and, especially, creators of eLearning. Ive been creating training and e-Learning programs for over 20 years, serving as an instructional designer, writer, developer, and project manager. Properly d.

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APRIL 28, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network by Jolene on April 28, 2011 in Informal Learning , Instructional Design , Training Development , Video , social learning According to the 1996 report from the U.S.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 10, 2019

Henry Kingman Instructional Designer. My resolution for 2019 as an instructional designer is to always go one step further. Whether I’m brainstorming solutions, designing meaningful interactions, or reviewing my content, I’m going to take one extra step to make sure I have the best version possible.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 25, 2011

So, instructional designers and learning professionals who strive to improve retention could do well to remember the dynamics of forgetting, by including plenty of practice and exercises in the learning experiences they create.

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JUNE 11, 2021

In recent years, hundreds of new strategies, software, and processes have burst onto the scene, each designed for a specific L&D application or business need. The learning and development landscape is vast, spanning across many different industries and servicing a wide range of organizational needs.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2011

As VP, Instructional Design Services for Dashe & Thomson, Inc. Most recently, Ive been working on training programs for the propane industry. I see myself as a translator, taking complex ideas and systems and making them easy for a learner to understand. Properly d.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

As VP, Instructional Design Services for Dashe & Thomson, Inc. Most recently, Ive been working on training programs for the propane industry. I see myself as a translator, taking complex ideas and systems and making them easy for a learner to understand. Properly d.

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APRIL 11, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Do Instructional Designers in the Social Digital Age need an Engineering Background? In fact, instructional designers are wired to think this way. Sounds a lot like software engineering and implementation. So, what do you think?

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APRIL 21, 2011

As VP, Instructional Design Services for Dashe & Thomson, Inc. Most recently, Ive been working on training programs for the propane industry. I see myself as a translator, taking complex ideas and systems and making them easy for a learner to understand. Properly d.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena by Jim on October 15, 2010 in Reviews , eLearning Most of the eLearning modules we design here at Dashe & Thomson are aimed at the corporate audience. The Army even [.]

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OCTOBER 15, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena by Jim on October 15, 2010 in Reviews , eLearning Most of the eLearning modules we design here at Dashe & Thomson are aimed at the corporate audience. The Army even [.]

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APRIL 17, 2011

Tom Gram, in the February 17, 2011 post on his Performance X Design blog, says that our training programs are working when we can point to evidence and linkages in performance terms. You can draw on the “before-and-after” business and human resource metrics that are readily available in any company. That’s all we usually need, he says.

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MARCH 1, 2011

In fact, it is this last group, the instructional designers and training developers of the world, who may actually have the most to gain if computers – and software – really do become Super one day. less big companies, for more than 20 years. Properly d.

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