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Getting a job as an Instructional Designer

Learning Visions

You have to provide some proof of your capabilities and at the very least be able to point to a really kick ass portfolio of design treatments or even courses you’ve built (or collaborated on with someone else). If you really want to show your stuff, take one topic and create a few different designs out of it. That’s right.

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Clark Quinn on Designing Mobile Learning (Audio Interview)

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If you’re involved with training, I suspect the push for providing mobile solutions is getting stronger. If you’re an Instructional Designer and freaking out that now you have to do mobile too – on top of everything else?! – let’s just calm down…. Listen to the audio interview: Designing mLearning with Clark Quinn.

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Design for How People Learn by Julie Dirksen @usablelearning

Learning Visions

Julie Dirksen has written a most excellent book for the beginning practitioner as well as the seasoned veteran of instructional design: Design for How People Learn. I'm buying this for my design team and will recommend this to clients as an essential book for their learning design libraries.

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One Learning Designer's Look Back at 2012

Learning Visions

While I still work out of my home office in the Boston area, our office in downtown Chicago now boasts a full host of project managers, instructional designers, ace graphic artists, top notch developers, our Totara LMS support team, as well as marketing and support personnel. Our Kineo US team has continued to grow and flourish. Conferences.

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Designing a Management Dev Program to Get Results [@Kineo Webinar Th May 19]

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Designing a Management Development Program to Get Results [Webinar] Date: Thursday, May 19, 2016 @ 10a.m. CST Duration: 1 hour Speaker: Cammy Bean, Solutions Consultant, and Dr. Chip Cleary, VP of Design, Solutions & Consulting Are you happy with how you develop front-line managers (aka supervisors, team leads, first-time managers)?

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Audio Interview with Will Thalheimer on Common Design Mistakes

Learning Visions

I had great fun last week talking with Will Thalheimer on common design flaws in e-Learning. In case you don’t know Will, he’s an amazing asset to the e-Learning community, providing a bridge between research and practice. According to Will, the top three mistakes learning designers make: 1. We fail to minimize forgetting.

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Rick Raymer: Applying Game Design Principles to elearning #devlearn

Learning Visions

Create time sensitive objectives Rick says “Your job as a designer is to make your learners feel clever and smart.” In learning we want to set up learner with new skills, let them practice, then assess, then move on to build new skills (level up!) Goals & Objectives Give the learners choices (but not too many!)

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