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In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

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Instructional designers were getting ready to be in high demand, especially in the corporate world. The folks who used it, overwhelmingly were instructional designers/e-learning developers and yes a few of us, who said “We can do this too,” only to find it so difficult and challenging, we had to look elsewhere.

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Wanted – Instructional Designer

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How many of you out there today are looking to hire an instructional designer? How many of you, have experience in instructional design but only from the ILT or paper-based perspective? I self taught myself Instructional Design back in 2000. A-Analyze D-Develop D-Design I=Implement E-Evaluate. Winging is bad.

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Interview with Instructional Design Pioneer, Dean Pichee

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It is often a challenge to find the pioneers of instructional design for not only e-learning, but also the days of CBT (Computer-Based Training) and before that when we had LANs and WANs with text driven content that went out to the masses. I do not have any knowledge around instructional design, nor how to build a good course.

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Refresh Needed – Learning Systems, are you listening?

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If anybody with Excel can replicate your design, that isn’t something you want. I mean, if you do a bit of VBA or use some formulas, you can actually surpass some of these vendors’ data designs. When you reach out to your clients for your new refresh, this tells me you lack confidence in your design ideas.

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How to Create an Online Course regardless of authoring tool or lack thereof

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There are pre-assumptions in play if you attend a workshop or seminar on instructional design or course building. I’ve never seen a presentation where the basics, including all facets of the introductory course design, are provided, regardless of the authoring tool or lack thereof. Sounds great, but it has passed its prime.

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E-Learning 24/7 Superhero Reader Edition: LRS Pros/Cons, Course design – what works

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Welcome, to another installment of Q&A where readers of the E-Learning 24/7 send me questions via e-mail and I respond (okay, I select a few and respond, but you probably figured that out). Couple of quick housekeeping notes – starting in March, the blog will be posted on Saturdays.

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History of the LMS

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Instructional design was actually being used. Formal and Informal – That’s right, it wasn’t all formal, nor was it designed to be. Because of the way the courses were designed. But because the approach of the course design, the ability to see exactly where the learner was going, was there. Yep doable.