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Instructional Design and Rapid Prototyping: Rising from the Ashes of ADDIE

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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. In ADDIE is DEAD! Long Live ADDIE! , For many years the five ADDIE phases were the foundation for the design of most systems. ADDIE vs. Rapid Prototyping.

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Rapid Instructional Design for Accelerated Learning

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Created in the military during World War II, the Instructional Systems Design (ISD) model has dominated curriculum design for the last 40 years. Meier says its weakness reflects a male-dominated point of view and a behavioristic approach to learning. Design using the four-phase learning cycle.

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Using the Scrum Process to Manage eLearning Projects

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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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Sound Instructional Design in E-Learning Development

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Teaching someone how to do something in person is one thing, but online learning is an entirely different animal. As a Creative Technologist, my role is, well, to use technology creatively, primarily within E-learning development.

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Instructional Design Lessons from the World of Theatre

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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. Just about any actor will tell you that learning lines is only a small part of what he or she does to rehearse and perform a role. It has to be learned.

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Learning from The King's Speech | Social Learning Blog

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This movie should be required viewing for anyone in the learning industry – it demonstrates all the ingredients for effective learning. In her article* 10 Brainpowered Wonders in the King’s Speech , Dr. Ellen Weber nicely summarizes a few of the lessons this movie teaches us about learning.

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Can Games Transform the World? | Social Learning Blog

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Can Games Transform the World? Games seem like a really cool way to add some fun to learning and seem to pose little or no risk to the learning outcome. What I hadn’t stopped to fully consider is why I would do that.