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eLearning Book Review: The Accidental Instructional Designer

Web Courseworks

Instructional designers and eLearning managers can learn something from Cammy Bean’s book. Here’s a question for the eLearning managers out there: How many members of your instructional design team got involved in the field by accident?

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Can I become an Instructional Designer?

Philip's Learning

If you're interested in pursuing a career in instructional design, you may be wondering if you have what it takes to succeed in the field. The truth is that instructional design is a diverse and inclusive field, and there are many different paths that can lead to success as an instructional designer.

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10 Helpful Resources for Online Course Designers

CourseArc

If you’ve never created an online course before, you may not be familiar with the term “instructional designer,” but that’s exactly what you’re about to become! Instructional design is the act of creating of educational resources. Design for How People Learn (Julie Dirksen).

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Merging Pedagogy & Instructional Game Design

InSync Training

In reality, though, when incorporated with traditional instructional design theory, games have huge potential for learners. Recently, Dr. Stephen Slota, owner of The Pericles Group , joined our BYTE roster for his presentation It’s In the Game: Merging Contemporary Pedagogy & Instructional Game Design.

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How To Design eLearning That Delivers Results With Tim Slade

TechSmith Camtasia

Designing an eLearning course can seem like an intimidating task. Perhaps more importantly, what can you do to make sure that you design an eLearning course that delivers real results? Tim Slade is a speaker, award-winning freelance eLearning designer and the author of the book, ‘ The eLearning Designer’s Handbook.’

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Adult learning theories for instructional designers: Andragogy

Matrix

Being familiar with these theories will help you build learning strategies, design coherent learning paths courses that make a difference. Andragogy – the grown-up cousin of pedagogy. In 1970, he published the first edition of his popular book, The Modern Practice of Adult Education: Andragogy Versus Pedagogy. Stay tuned!

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Is the pedagogy of MOOCs flawed?

E-Learning Provocateur

That of course is not to say that the e-learning designer is prevented from using these devices; for example, he or she might leverage other non-LMS technology within the organisation or in the cloud. However, in my experience and in conversations with others, it is clear that they often don’t.

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