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MAY 7, 2014

The Accidental Instructional Designer #ASTD2014 from Cammy Bean' My session slides from ASTD 2014.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Are you a sharp, sassy, instructional designer with at least five years experience? We are hiring! Can you inspire a client, lead a project team, and design fantastic learning experiences? Find out more about this Chicago-based (or remote for the right person) position!

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JANUARY 30, 2010

Instructional-Design Theories and Models: An Overview of their Current Status, edited by Charles M. Instructional design, defined: “The discipline of instructional design is concerned primarily with prescribing optimal methods of instruction to bring about desired changes in student knowledge and skills.” (p.4)

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Learning Visions

MARCH 18, 2015

My book, The Accidental Instructional Designer, features a bunch of black rubber ducks with one shiny yellow one standing out from the crowd. She says she keeps a rubber duck on her desk to remind her that although she was an accidental instructional designer, she knows her stuff and practices with passion and intention.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Learn Some Tools Most employers these days want to hire IDs that know it all: instructional design and adult learning theory, graphics, script writing and authoring tools. I’ve got a google alert set up for Instructional Design and these days it’s mostly pushing through job listings. (It This is just a start.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 10, 2012

I’m extremely honored to be the featured article in this week’s Learning Solutions Magazine: The Accidental Instructional Designer. I’m enjoying the comments on the article as well – would love to hear your story, too.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

My live blogged notes from a session with Karl Kapp at ASTD’s TechKnowledge in San Jose: Instructional Design Today: What We Really Need to Know as Practitioners, Researchers, and Designers. Sound instructional design techniques work for the new technology (gadgets, games, etc.) Think performance supports instead of instruction.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 20, 2016

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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Learning Visions

AUGUST 11, 2010

Another book for the to-read list: Open Source Instructional Design by Nathaniel Eckel (with a nice forward by our old friend, Professor Karl Kapp ). He advocates a more collaborative, even friendly relationship, in which IDs teach basic instructional design to SMEs. Tags: book review instructional design.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

What Is Instructional Design? Tags: instructional design. I stumbled on this short presentation on Slideshare from ejars. View more presentations from ejars. What do you think? Has he got it right?

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Learning Visions

MARCH 5, 2010

Episode #8 of Instructional Design Live on EdTechTalk. A conversation with Professor Karl Kapp on instructional design – with a focus on the differences in ID as a practice in the academic and corporate worlds. Instructional Differences in corporate vs. academic? IDs need to add those instructional strategies.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

From the workshop description: Most of us working as instructional designers got here by accident, by showing an aptitude for training or expertise in a particular subject matter area. On March 19, I'll be leading a one day workshop in Orlando as part of the pre-conference program for the eLearning Guild's 2012 Learning Solutions conference.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 5, 2012

I've been running a survey on my blog for a number of years now, asking practicing Instructional Designers if they have an advanced degree in the field. It's been awhile since I've shared updated survey results, so here's a quick rundown: About 63% of practicing IDs do NOT have an advanced degree.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Friday, February 19th, I’ll be talking it up with Robert Squires and the rest of the ID Live crew on this week’s edition of Instructional Design Live on the EdTechTalk channel. Tags: me instructional design edtechtalk. But don’t tell anyone that or they’ll think I’m some kind of weirdo. Robert and I did a dry run yesterday.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 3, 2010

So here I am reading an Instructional Design textbook (Reigeluth, 1983) and I'm struggling with this one: "External Conditions are those events outside the learner that activate and support the internal processes of learning. The appropriate provision of the external event is the framework for planning instruction." I mean, come on.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 13, 2011

These are my live blogged notes from December 13, 2011: eLearning Guild Thought Leaders Webinar Ruth Clark and Richard Mayer’s book e-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning – now in its 3rd edition. Instruct, Demo, Practice, Feedback. Used for software training.

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Learning Visions

MAY 6, 2009

Me: I'm an instructional designer. Tags: instructional design. Eventually, she asks you what you do for work. What do you say? Are you met with comprehension or blank stares? This was me yesterday: Playground Mom: So, what do you do? I create eLearning. Playground Mom: [blank stare] Me: corporate training.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

If you know me, you’ll know my topic was right up my alley: “Instructional Design: You Do What for a Living?” I asked people to introduce themselves and tell their stories – how they each got into instructional design. We all agreed that no one set out in their early days with the grand vision of becoming an instructional designer.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 13, 2009

John Curry's looking for input from instructional designers. You may remember him from such posts as: Essential Reading for Instructional Design? and How to Get an Instructional Design Education Without Paying Tuition He's interested in the disconnect between academia and corporate design. Take the survey.

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AUGUST 15, 2011

And now she’s created, through an act of devotion and love to her profession, an iPhone resource for Instructional Designers. That Connie Malamed (@elearningcoach) is one smart cookie. It’s a glossary of ID terms – over 450 terms in all – in an easy to use and very hyperlinked format.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The exciting news is that Charles Reigeluth will be joining us on Instructional Design Live this Friday at noon eastern. How does the Information-Age paradigm of instruction differ from the Industrial-Age paradigm? What are the key issues for designing instruction for the Information-Age paradigm of instruction?

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, February 15, 2008 Essential Reading for Instructional Design? As an instructional designer/eLearning professional, what books are the essential tools in your reference library ? Im not looking for the obtuse theory books.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

John Curry interviewed me for his Introduction to Instructional Design class. I was one of four instructional designers that John interviewed and the only non-degreed one in the bunch. an instructional designer in the Clinical Guidance Organization for Humana Health Care Each interview is about 30 minutes long.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 15, 2011

So where do you send new practitioners for ideas and inspiration? Here’s a list I recently compiled for some new members on my team. Allen Partridge Adobe Captivate Blog For those of you who work with Captivate, you can’t miss Allen Partridge’s blog -- practical know-how with a spark.

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MARCH 25, 2009

My friend Robin is working on his Master's Degree in Instructional Design at the University of Massachusetts. There are two surveys: Tools Survey for IDs (closed questions) About You -- the Instructional Designer (open-ended questions, essay format) Thanks! Tags: instructional design survey. Can you help him out?

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Have you ever seen the claim: "built using proven Instructional Design." (I Tags: buzzword instructional design. I just saw it. Some website. Ain't saying where. But I could equally have found it on the back of a cereal box.) Do you ever wonder how they proved it? Did they prove it? What are they actually talking about?

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JANUARY 22, 2010

I'll be talking with Robert Squires today about Instructional Design on the Instructional Design Live show EdTechTalk. Tags: instructional design edtechtalk. Join us for the conversation, today at noon eastern time!

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 2, 2009

There's been a great conversation going on around my last post " Accidental Instructional Designers ". Karl Kapp feels like I'm chewing his chaw a bit and was reminded of his own post from last year: We Need a Degree in Instructional Design (yes, the conversation has been going on for ages -- and I sometimes am always in the middle of it!)

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JANUARY 13, 2010

The question was "Instructional Designers: do you have an advanced degree in ID?" I think this one tells an interesting story ("How long have you been working as an Instructional Designer?": You can view the full Instructional Designer survey results. Tags: instructional design survey. Where do all the IDs go over time?

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JANUARY 8, 2010

12:00-12:30 pm eastern Instructional Design Live: Episode 0 This show is a chance to find out about what other people in the ID field are doing. Marlene Zentz, Instructional Designer, University of Montana Come from working with college faculty – to create powerful online courses. What does Instructional Design mean to us?

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 23, 2010

As a 9-year old kid, did you think, “I wanna be a firefighter, a doctor, a teacher…or maybe…an instructional designer!” I suspect that few of those who now practice the fine art and science of instructional design, started off early in life with that vision. I’ve shared my story before – my route to instructional design.

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OCTOBER 13, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Instructional Design Questionnaire Dr. John Currys looking for input from instructional designers. You may remember him from such posts as: Essential Reading for Instructional Design?

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MARCH 23, 2009

As Instructional Designers, it appears we're a wide-ranging lot. Not only do we do instructional design, but we also do a whole lot of other stuff. Tags: instructional design. Clive Shepherd tweeted about a survey recently done by the eLearning Network , a non-profit eLearning community based out of the UK.

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JANUARY 19, 2009

I stumbled across this on a writer's blog today: "Officially, I’m now an Instructional Designer. Koreen Olbrish asks "Is Instructional Design Dead?" The debate has raged here and elsewhere as to whether instructional designer's need to have advanced degrees in ID. We have questioned the value of Instructional Designers.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

In my recent post Instructional Design - What's in a Name? ID student commented: My problem with the industry is that the degree in instructional design is required of management. I've seen jobs that require a MA/MEd/MS in ID even though those individuals in those jobs don't design instruction. the usual controversy erupted.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Someone got to my blog the other day by searching on “what’s the difference between learning designers and instructional designers?” In my last job, I was the Manager of Instructional Design. Tags: learning designers instructional design learning desig. Good question. Now I’m the VP of Learning Design. What do you think??

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JUNE 9, 2009

Instructional Designer? Instructional designer" is an umbrella term that covers about 1,217,042 different types of people and jobs. That's not a real statistic, by the way, but my very unscientific guess at how many people actually call themselves instructional designers.) Tags: instructional design. What's that?"

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