LearnDash

JULY 13, 2015

Instructional design is a fascinating profession with a vast array of tools, guidelines, theories, and best-practices. If you are just getting started with instructional design, then all of this can seem pretty overwhelming. Below is a list of some of the more common habits of successful instructional designers.

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Learning Pool

MAY 29, 2020

At Learning Pool, we’ve got a new toy: Waves. Waves isn’t designed to replace your current learning platforms or content; it’s meant to add to them. Scheduling content in Waves can help you automate messages and reminders designed to increase engagement. The post Waves: Don’t manage, design appeared first on Learning Pool.

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BrainCert

AUGUST 17, 2022

If you are or were a teacher or know how to teach about a particular subject, you can make passive income by designing and selling your own lesson plans to teachers across the world. Educational Toys If you are not into teaching, you can create, manufacture and sell high-quality educational toys for children of all ages.

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CommLab India

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Toying with the idea of outsourcing your eLearning to a third party, but struggling with budgetary constraints? Instead of outsourcing the entire eLearning design and development, you could choose to outsource only those parts that can’t be done in-house. Here’s some good news. Interested? Read on.

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Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

3) Having a free, safe play space and shared toy objects that can be engaged within the environment. Where someone can “toy around.&#. Sounds like some of the things instructional designers do, we use case studies and examples to wrap experiences, we add rules and we create challenges to engage the learning.

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Coursy

AUGUST 2, 2022

Following is the list of principles we have found useful in designing learning solutions: 1. Do not design to just please the learner. The joy of the next toy might not be the solution you need, although it might be tempting. Distinctive questioning gives more actionable data and better input for solution design.

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D2L

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Earlier this year, “Sesame Street” introduced its newest resident Julia, an adorable Muppet with orange hair and a toy rabbit. Julia also has autism. The … Continued.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 4, 2010

I confess, I’m a design guy. And I like to think that 30-odd years of practice and reflection on learning design (investigating myriad design practices, looking at design models, etc) provides some reason to think I’ve developed a wee bit of expertise on the topic. Tags: design mobile.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

In the continuing process of resolving what I want to do when I grow up (rest assured, not happening), I’ve been toying with a concept. And I’ve come up with the phrase: Learning Experience Design (LXD) Strategist. It’s about getting the design right, then implementing. So here’s my thinking.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 13, 2018

Futuristic hardware and magical software that educates everyone at the press of a button are tempting “solutions” Some folks call this mindset Shiny New Toy Syndrome, and by golly, it’s a pandemic. The former is rather obvious and is often conflated with the term innovation.

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Hurix Digital

MARCH 1, 2024

K12 EdTech Apps, designed for students from kindergarten to 12th grade, are making a significant impact. Particularly in K12 education, a noteworthy phenomenon has emerged— the widespread success and popularity of engaging apps designed for young learners. And balloons (subtraction/addition).

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Jay's in the art department as the production designer – his team designs everything you see on the screen. Everyone becomes a designer of a film. Design of the building – the left wing is the left brain – “the smartests” and the right wing is the right brain -- “the artists”. Forgive any typos or incoherencies.

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LearnDash

JANUARY 13, 2015

Any seasoned instructional designer will tell you that elearning development cannot be approached in the same manner across multiple courses – even if the content is identical. Have a look at the toys that are offered on the market today. The toys for a 12-year-old differ quite a bit than those designed for a six-year-old.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 12, 2012

The second article is From Game Design Elements to Gamefulness: Defining “Gamification” by Sebastian Deterding, Dan Dixon, Rilla Khaled, and Lennart Nacke. This article does a nice job of distinguishing between serious games, toys, playful design and gamification.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

As I wandered around the show this year, skilfully sidestepping the ministrations of a host of staffers dressed up as grizzly bears, transformers and astronauts, all trying to sell me their latest shiny toys, and politely refusing their offers of glossy brochures and leaflets, I noted that the most predominant displays seemed to feature robots.

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SHIFT eLearning

JANUARY 29, 2015

What does an instructional designer do when he or she is at work? He shares office with creative graphic designers and illustrators who make scenes and people come alive with their images, wordsmiths who paint pictures with their words, and maverick programmers who bring together the words and the pictures to create exciting courses.

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Ed App

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Virtual Classroom Platform #3 – Deck Toys. Another virtual classroom platform with several benefits is Deck Toys. This platform is designed specifically for mobile devices and allows learners to easily participate in classes. It allows them to create ePortfolios and earn badges so they can take ownership of their learning.

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Origin Learning

OCTOBER 16, 2015

From airline to auto to toy makers, real-time experiences of exploiting this medium have been a positive one! Making sales social by design and creating stuff worth sharing are two aspects that the airline has successfully tested. Last year, it achieved €25 million in social media revenue. Source: [link].

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Upside Learning

APRIL 23, 2010

Game designer David Perry says tomorrow’s videogames will be more than mere fun to the next generation of gamers. Will Wright makes toys that make worlds. Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how. David Perry on Videogames.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 24, 2014

While I can’t hack into NASA, I’m confident enough to give any software a go and not be put off by shiny new toys. That’s not by accident; it’s by design. Until I finally gave up for good. Now I’m a fairly tech savvy kind of guy. But I was put off by this. Address the Average Joe imperative.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

A diverse range of products is currently being 3D printed, including clothes, jewellery, candy, teeth, prosthetics, tools, car parts, architectural models, furniture, toys and accessories. No more need for storage and transport; just a licence to print the proprietary design. Consider a methodology such as Human Centered Design.

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LearnDash

APRIL 17, 2013

A good number of instructional design professionals rely upon Box.net to send and share files – but this isn’t ideal for everyone. Before revealing this new toy, let me give you a little background. The good news is that there is an alternative to Box.net that has just hit the scene (well, sort of).

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Clark Quinn

JULY 21, 2015

In designing learning, we would love to achieve such motivation. They tell ongoing stories that resonate with individuals, and drive other media including (as mentioned) movies, TV, games, and toys. Are you designing experiences? Again, I haven’t seen CES since the very early days, but it can’t be much larger.

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Skillquore

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Besides, you may mail them carefully selected presents like boots and shoes, perfume, and plush toys and games. Overall, the FindBride website has a nice design and style, an attractive interface, and a fantastic collection of women. Additionally , you can also enjoy their movies. Also, the site offers an excellent navigation.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 17, 2009

There may be many ways to implement these in game/simulation environments, designers need to consider what works best given the kind of environment they are modeling. Building it into the design of learning game or simulation poses a type of challenge that most Instructional Designers would shy from.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 21, 2011

Systematic creativity is encouraged and enabled in many disciplines such as the arts, science, design and of course, engineering. This translation of an abstract design thought into a working/physical representation is done using Lego bricks. Each individual creates something that is different from the other.

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Upside Learning

JULY 7, 2011

Typically, the kid and I indulge in play sessions that use Lego as the base toy and then build an imaginary world for our Lego models to inhabit and interact with. Somewhere along the way, events with effects are added and stories occur in the imaginary environment with the models playing roles.

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E-learning Uncovered

OCTOBER 18, 2012

The same concepts are important in the graphic design. Here are three design principles that I try to embrace in every e-learning course I create: 1. We have so many design tools at our disposal in modern authoring and graphics software that it’s tempting to use them all. These are my core design principles – what are yours?

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Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 15, 2009

When designing virtual spaces, alter them to make the space little larger than normal to accommodate navigating the avatar, reconsider the roof of a building (no weather in virtual worlds), hold a class meeting in a garden or a brainstorming session to discuss crowd control in a subway. Virtual Immersive Environments are Not a Panacea.

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CommLab India

JULY 25, 2016

You know that feeling when you watch a scenic video and it captures your attention to such a great extent that you wish you could actually be there?

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Web Courseworks

AUGUST 22, 2016

Select and design interventions. Whether it’s a hospital, a factory creating toys for children, or even fast food franchises, PI is needed everywhere. Define desired performance. Describe actual performance. Describe performance gaps. Find root Causes. Evaluation. Every organization strives for performance improvement.

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eLearning Brothers

APRIL 4, 2019

Bill’s first interactivity example showcased a very cool play on the Viewmaster toy. Today was less of a step-by-step and more of a conceptual, inspiration-sparking look at ways to combine actions you already know to create awesomeness. Those of us at a certain age will remember having these as children! But, guess what?

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Challenge to Learn

JUNE 5, 2018

You are nervous about the amount of time it takes to design an online course and may feel that you lack the necessary technology skills. Many institutions have on-staff instructional designers. These colleagues often know the ins and outs of the latest e-learning design tools. The role and future of instructional designers.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 10, 2012

If you're a serious graphic designer, you'll pay $3K for Creative Suite; and audio and video engineers pay similar prices for their software. If, on the other hand, you are talking about toys as opposed to tools of the trade - and I like toys as much as the next person - then $99 seems about right.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 5, 2011

• The 4 S’s of mobile design. • Toying with emotion. . • The big myth of social networking. • Foching up social media. Mobile learning. • Mobile learning – Push or pull? Informal learning. • Viva la evolution. • Doctoring the Informal Learning Environment. Content development.

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The Training by Nelle Blog | Corporate Training and Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2021

You’ll find two minute tips to 10 minute demonstrations covering talent development tips, tech toys for trainers and teachers, and much more. Most importantly, I like to deliver a unique perspective with creative and research-based solutions that are designed to help you improve the performance of your people and overall organization.

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Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Every student must go through this process and deliver a WORKING product (not just design it). They blog, contribute to wikis, and design instruction for a 3D virtual environment as well as create web sites for mobile learning devices. Fourth, our students stay on the cutting edge.

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