Clark Quinn

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The roots of LXD

Clark Quinn

Instructional design, as is well documented, has it roots in meeting the needs for training in WWII. User experience (UX) came from the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) revolution towards User Centered Design. All items that now are incorporated in design thinking. These days, LXD has emerged.

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Experts and Explanations

Clark Quinn

I’ve been going through several different forms of expert documentation. This requires some extra work on the part of those who work with them, whether instructional designers, technical writers, editors, whoever. As a consequence, I’ve been experiencing a lot of the problems with that!

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Monday Broken ID Series: Process

Clark Quinn

The intention is to provide insight into many ways much of instructional design fails, and some pointers to avoid the problems. The point is not to say ‘bad designer’, but instead to point out how to do better design. You know what I’m talking, about the A-word, that five letter epithet, ADDIE.

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It’s the process, silly!

Clark Quinn

And part of it is in the knowledge and skills of the designers, but it’s also in the process. And I don’t mean ADDIE, though not inherently. Given that people are far less predictable than, say, concrete, fields like interface design have long known that testing and refinement need to be included. So what do I mean?

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Better Benchmarking

Clark Quinn

The first core element I documented is a learning culture. That’s accompanied by the approach to formal learning, looking at your instructional design and delivery. Using my performance ecosystem model, I took the six fundamental elements and elaborated them.

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How I write

Clark Quinn

I want to be able to manipulate the whole document, moving sections. Even in my more immediately forthcoming book, Learning Science for Instructional Designers , I found that I’d written about the same concept in two different places. Which is why I need industrial strength outlining in my writing package.

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Developing Decisions

Clark Quinn

We can use semantic analysis to read documents and make a system that can answer questions about them. So, for instance, for instructional design, we should have an awareness of interface design, graphic design, media production, etc. This needs to be augmented with an awareness of adjacent fields.

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