What I didn’t realize was how well my theatre training would serve me in the world of consulting and instructional design for corporate training projects. I’d like to share a few of those lessons with you here. Lesson 1 – Active Listening. So how does active listening relate to instructional design? When you have been designing instructional programs for awhile, it is easy to start making assumptions about your client’s needs. Lesson 2 – Don’t leave any fingerprints. It has to be learned. But what is active listening? MORE >>

If you’re designing a one-week course, or even a partial day course, how do you divide its content into lessons? Intuitively, I used to define lessons by topic. Some lessons I’ve designed are as short as 15 minutes, while others are up to four hours. Conversely, an instructional designer I used to work with felt strongly that a lesson should be an hour, and he would look for ways to logically organize content into one-hour chunks. Why does lesson size matter? The length of eLearning lessons matters for at least two reasons: -1- Learner Perception. MORE >>

I received a question from a current classroom teacher who is hoping to make the career move to instructional design. Specifically, she wanted to know how to prepare for an interview for an instructional design position. When I was part of a team interviewing teachers who wanted to switch, we always asked a couple of questions: Have you developed any curriculum or lesson plans collaboratively, or have you always developed by yourself? This wasn’t a deal-breaker for us, but being able to talk about how you worked with others to develop lessons is a big plus. MORE >>

Skip to content Follow: RSS Twitter LearnNuggets Nuggets of Learning Stuff Home About Resources Tags articulate , eLearning Lesson II, Part I: Making your own Custom Articulate Player by Kevin on July 13th, 2010 In this lesson, we’re going to learn how to build the graphics for the skin of your player. In review of Lesson I we talked about the project and setting up the tools needed. In this lesson, we’ll be building all the graphic elements from scratch using Flash. This is where all of our ActionScript will go when we get to Lesson III. Walla! Be creative! MORE >>

I’ve been thinking about fresh approaches to instructional design. Instructional design was invented around the time of World War II. Instructional purists still revere the logic of ADDIE. Modern instructional design needs to focus on creating flexible environments that nurture learning rather than rigid programs that attempt to force lessons into the heads of learners. major part of modern instructional design involves creating and nurturing learning ecologies. The training film was born, soon to be followed with the ADDIE model. MORE >>