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Professional Organizations for Instructional Designers

Experiencing eLearning

What professional organizations are useful for instructional designers? This post is part of a series about instructional design careers. The Learning Guild, ATD, TLDC, Training Magazine Network, and LDA all provide both free and paid resources for instructional designers and other learning and development professionals.

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Remote Instructional Design Jobs

Experiencing eLearning

Instructional design jobs were often done remotely before the pandemic. Now that most of us are staying home, even more opportunities for remote instructional design and elearning work are available. A Google search for “instructional design remote work” returns over 15 million hits, so there are things out there.

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Saying Good-bye to The eLearning Guild (but not leaving the Guild family)

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

On August 27th I begin the next chapter of my eLearning career. I am leaving the Training and Development industry's most important professional association, The eLearning Guild , to be part of a startup in the data center industry. eLearning is no longer reserved for the geeky types. The e in eLearning is for EVERYBODY!

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10 Reasons to Join The eLearning Guild

Web Courseworks

I remember the days when Web Courseworks’ customers did not have online course instructional developers or designers and LMS administrators on staff. If you are a professional instructional designer or online course developer, you probably belong to the community of practice called the eLearning Guild.

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Must-Have Skills to Look For When Hiring an Instructional Designer

LearnDash

The role of an instructional designer is critical in creating successful learning experiences. Instructional designers are responsible for designing courses that meet learners’ needs and achieve objectives. Instructional designers do this in a few ways. They’ll use this evaluation to find opportunities for improvement.

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Shades of Instructional Design [Slides from eLearning Guild #OLF]

Learning Visions

Today I got to kick off the eLearning Guild's latest online forum, Instructional Design Approaches for Project and Learner Success. I talked about one of my favorite subjects: the many shades of instructional design and shared some tips and ideas for designing better eLearning along the way.

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12 Helpful Resources for Instructional Design

CourseArc

12 Helpful Resources for Instructional Design. Top books, blogs, videos, and more to excel as an instructional designer. Instructional design is the thoughtful application of design aspects — like color theory, typography, and user experience — to create educational resources. Design for How People Learn (by Julie Dirksen) .